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...Englishmen broke into For He's A Jolly Good Fellow, and the Americans joined in. The Prime Minister turned, flipped up his V-for-Victory salute, and left as he had entered, with an odd combination of dignity and familiarity...
...Hong Kong was a free port, unencumbered by tariffs, strictly governed by Englishmen, who kept its streets clean, its docks and shipyards humming, its swarming Chinese population busy. Even its last Governor, Sir Mark Young, was a man of the Imperial tradition: Cambridge-educated, a High Churchman, a cricketer and big-game hunter, a stubborn-hearted fighter...
...British Empire forces in Malaya under Major General Arthur Ernest Percival are thought to number about 125,000 Australians, Indians, New Zealanders, Scots, and Englishmen, all well equipped and rigorously trained in jungle warfare. They are not too strong in heavy equipment, except in the Singapore area, where there is plenty of artillery. Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham's R.A.F. strength was apparently shocked by the first blast, and consequently the Japanese at first achieved local air control in north Malaya. But from London it was announced that immediate reinforcements would be sent by way of a long-prepared...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
...card, works some 20 hours a day. He is Defender of the Faith in a deeper sense, says Author Kraus, "than his ancestors and predecessors in a thousand years of British Monarchy." For "the war has transformed King and nation alike. . . . He is not only the noblest of reformed Englishmen, but . . . himself a great reformer . . . everything revolutionary in England, from mechanized warfare to the abolition of the class system is intimately connected with his personal endeavors...