Word: gladwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Clementis identified himself as a spy and traitor, and said that, like Slansky, he had tried to kill Gottwald, his dear friend. He fingered John Foster Dulles of the U.S., Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia as "spies." Ludvik Frejka, author of the Czechoslovak two-and five-year plans, took the stand to confess: "I sabotaged in such a way that there is still rationing of electricity and food in Czechoslovakia." The wife of accused former Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London wrote the court that she at first believed her husband innocent...
During a visit to their old friend, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, British Diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb and his wife climbed into an ox-drawn cart for a tourists' tour of Lincoln Village in New Salem. The tour ended when the driver lost control of the oxen and the cart lumbered into a big tree, leaving the passengers shaken but undamaged. Said Sir Gladwyn: "I think we got out rather luckily considering that this has been our first try at midwest sightseeing...
...raining down on the enemy a horrible array of germ-laden objects: pork, crackers, spiders, crows, ants, yellow leaves, crickets, flies, fleas and death-dealing goose feathers. Malik's colleagues on the U.N. Disarmament Commission could take it no longer. "My right ear," complained Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who sits at Malik's left, "has become seriously infected by the perpetual dissemination of verbal bacilli." The commission, eleven against Malik, ruled the Russian out of order...
...victory was a little diluted. Siam amended Tsiang's resolution to condemn Russia for having "failed to carry out" the treaty-Tsiang's phrase had been "violated." Besides there were 24 abstainers, including France and Britain. "Academic," ho-hummed Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and likely to "open up old wounds." Greece and Turkey were the only Europeans to vote...
...could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...