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...mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen viewing an icicle-hung pipe above the caption: "If burst pipes were good enough for my dear father, they're good enough for me." Arab delegates conferring with Ernie Bevin on Palestine (see below) found it too cold even before the huge fireplaces of St. James's Palace...
...Englishmen with a hard word for Herbert Agar are hard to find. U.S. Ambassador John Winant borrowed Lieut. Commander Agar from the Navy late in 1943 to convince doubting Britons that the U.S. would be not only the arsenal of democracy but a provider of men. Later, as London OWI head, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Herbert Agar did a notable job of helping to dissolve British-U.S. differences. He exhorted factory workers in their own language, patched up tiffs between British mayors and U.S. troops. On first meeting, people might think Herbert Agar was also soft...
...Which Englishmen could recognize as a corruption of John Peel...
...Arthur Eddington, Jeans's closest rival, died in 1 B.B. (Before the Bomb). Jeans himself died in 2 A.B. The two Englishmen left no one to take their place. So far, the terrifying discoveries of the nuclear physicists have found no comparable interpreters...
...Labour Government, England is a nation of doubts and contradictions; peace has brought almost no benefits and few concrete suggestions for immediate remedy are forthcoming. Yet, were the Labour Government to stand for reelection today, it would win easily. Completely unlike most Americans with their native optimism, most Englishmen face the future realistically: England will have a tough time during the next few years, and no government can work an overnight miracle...