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British Ambassador to France Sir Gladwyn Jebb asked Mendes outright for an explicit guarantee that he would not abandon EDC in return for Soviet "concessions" on Germany. Mendes evaded the question. Nevertheless, as Mendes boarded his special train to Brussels, Jebb was waiting on the platform with a message brought directly from Sir Winston Churchill, promising British support...
...British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham, who joined the exclusive ranks (limit: 50 members) of the Companions of Honor; sharp-tongued Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, 66, now a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire; solid Sir Gladwyn Jebb, 54, now Britain's Ambassador to France after four years as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N., a big enough man to bear the ponderous title of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George...
...found the project endangered no legitimate Arab interest. This was sure to madden the Syrians, and gave the Russians a chance to curry Arab favor. Russia cast its 57th Security Council veto, its first in a Middle East dispute and its first against Israel. Warned Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "This is a melancholy and sinister occasion-melancholy . . . for future international cooperation; sinister, because of its implications for the cause of peace in the Arab world...
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...armed forces fighting under the U.N. flag. The other consists of the Communists." In the U.S. view, it follows that the U.N. ought not to invite either Russia ("definitely not on our side") nor India (which had no fighting forces in Korea). Lodge tried to persuade Sir Gladwyn Jebb, but the British found Lodge's stand "unrealistic," and when Canada and France sided with Britain, a first-class row ensued...