Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englishman, thank Mr. Ernest Nathan [who said that none of Britain's colonial natives risked their lives for the Empire in the war against Japan-TIME, April 22] for his letter of lofty advice upon how an Englishman may obtain "clean hands?" I trust that the hand that wrote that letter is quite clean in the eyes of your millions of Negroes, not to mention the Indians who have for generations been concentrated in reservations...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...
...York Times story about aspeech of Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin at Paris was the statement: "It must always be kept in mind that Mr. Bevin . . . is talking not only for Great Britain but for the whole British Commonwealth." This apparently innocuous statement was not taken that way by Canadians...
Wanted: Beds. When Washington asked a put-up-or-shut-up question (''What is Alaska doing about it?"), Albrecht had a stopper: none-too-wealthy Alaska had voted $250,000, about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...
...ERNEST N. KIRRMANN...