Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, one of eighty such groups in American colleges aided by the American Association for the United Nations is backed by Professors William Y. Elliott, A. W. Holcombe, and Samuel Beer, and Payson S. Wild, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. its financial structure is built on donations from outside sources, but the group, according to its chairman, will remain an indigenous University organization...
Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, readied himself for a more Spartan venture than Beebe's. He was about to make a winter-long lecture tour of the U.S., in a new Lincoln, with one chauffeur and one secretary. Interviewed in Manhattan,. Journalist Churchill refused to comment on Elliott Roosevelt's observation (in As He Saw It) that "for young Churchill, conversation is strictly a unilateral operation." He also refused to comment on Sister Mary's rumored engagement to Belgium's Prince Charles. Said Journalist Churchill: "It's nobody's business. ... I think there should be five freedoms?Freedom...
...soon after, he argues, the British were able to persuade U.S. "reactionaries" in the State Department and elsewhere to back British imperial interests against Russia. The Soviets became alarmed and rang down the Iron Curtain. Thinks Elliott: the "only two nations whose security interests clash today" are Britain and Russia. Instead of arbitrating these differences, "as Father had always been careful to do," Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes have gone over to the British. Observer Roosevelt adds a footnote: "'The biggest thing,' Father commented [after Teheran], 'was in making clear to Stalin that the United States...
Shuffling briskly between fervent opinion and intimate revelation, As He Saw It is far more interesting in the second role. Elliott must be one of a tiny handful who have seen Winston Churchill "stalking about the room, clad only in a cigar." Bits like this and F.D.R.'s comments on his contemporaries, as remembered by Elliott, will be noted by more serious biographers. Sample F.D.R. comments...
...Gaulle: "Elliott, De Gaulle is out to achieve one-man government in France. I can't imagine a man I would distrust more...