Word: englishmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Everybody's Secrets. One day last week at teatime, Nasser's government rounded up two Britons and half a dozen Egyptians. Shortly thereafter, the Egyptian information chief announced that the two Englishmen-James Swinburn, 51, of the British-owned Arab News Agency and Charles Pittuck, 47, of the Marconi Radio & Telegraph Co. had made a "complete confession." According to the government spokesman, Swinburn headed "a dangerous espionage ring which worked for British intelligence and supplied it with information about the Egyptian armed forces." Swinburn's cook had told all, and Swinburn had been arrested just...
...Englishmen once again walked the streets of Cyprus freely, and in the capital of Nicosia long-idle café waiters scurried to serve capacity crowds. For the first time in months there even were queues outside the theaters near "Murder Mile,"−downtown Ledra Street which E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, had so long terrorized with its murders...
...world has changed, and today everyone wants independence." One Egyptian put it more drastically: "Belgrave was one of those so-called Arab experts. Just as Glubb went, so he's gone, and so will go all of them. Nobody's impressed any more with Englishmen who can recite the Koran. The hell with them...
...discharge their cargoes, in reprisal for Britain's freezing of Egypt's sterling assets. In a speech to students training to fight for an Egyptian Suez, Nasser jeered at the expropriated company as "an instrument of imperialism . . . formed by a number of French counts and unemployed Englishmen," and shouted that if the British tried to return, "we know how to repel pirates." Hours later, calming down a little, the government ordered the British cotton loaded again, and Nasser announced in ringing statesman's tones:"We are as ever determined to honor all our international obligations. Freedom...
Professor Denis W. Brogan of Cambridge University stated the British position on the coming election in America by suggesting that most Englishmen don't know much at all about Nixon. He indicated, however, that if they did know much about him, they wouldn't like...