Word: gladwyn
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...course, a few details went awry. The model was on hand, but "my very dear friend who carefully wrote down her commentary," Stacey dolefully announced, "took . . . um ... a different route." Some of the star guides were also missing. Undergraduate Miles Jebb, son of the U.N.'s Sir Gladwyn, did not show up to conduct the tour through Magdalen College ("He's so tired of being his father's son"). Nor did the Hon. Antonia Pakenham, whose bailiwick was Lady Margaret Hall ("She had her parents down yesterday...
...Gladwyn, Jebb, British delegate to the United Nations, yesterday denied that he called General Douglas MacArthur probably the most unpopular American in England today. He made the original statement at a meeting with the Harvard United Nations Council here Saturday...
...Council decided, he said in a statement to the press, "that, because of the private nature of Sir Gladwyn's visit, no publicity be released on it while he was here." Thus no mention of the visit appeared until Monday, two days after he left for New York...
General MacArthur is probably the most unpopular American in England today, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British Delegate to the United Nations, was quoted as saying Saturday...
...bumble well-meaningly as he did during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...