Word: frankses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Britain's new ambassador to the U.S., Sir Oliver Franks, arrived in Washington last week, he expressed the customary sentiments about happy relations between the two countries. The sunny platitudes, however, were clouded by two facts. For one thing, Lulu, the Frankses' cherished family cat, was missing-it had somehow disappeared during the crossing, and was still missing when the Franks disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth. For another thing, U.S.-British relations had suddenly become anything but happy. Said one responsible Briton last week: "President Truman has antagonized our Foreign Office more completely than any American since...
Moreover, the Cunard White Star Lines announced that, despite intensive search, they had been unable to find Ambassador Franks's Lulu.
British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, 66, jammed extra packages of sugar, rice and bacon into his luggage, and departed for Great Britain and retirement. The U.S. people, he declared, were "the nicest I've ever lived amongst." The man who had performed superbly under Japanese bombing during six years as...
High up in the mountains of the Peloponnesus, Kalavryta (the name means "beautiful springs") was once razed in Roman times. The Romans used it as a watering place; so, later, did the Franks and Turks. In 1821 Archbishop Germanos, of Kalavryta's ancient monastery, began the Greek War of...
The man Britain chose to replace him was lean, ascetic Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons...