Word: lancasterism
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John Foster Dulles was lucky: he could get away, at least for a few days, from the room in Lancaster House where the air was thick with boredom, and stale mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to...
In London's Lancaster House last week the foreign ministers of the Big Four gathered for one more try at a German peace treaty. The ministers no longer expected to discover much common agreement; so they were not astonished when the first week produced one more collision of East...
Then they went on, leaving the future U.N. in a peace disturbed only by an unintentionally symbolic sign which read: "Serge, this is the equipment. Lancaster will help, he's the expert." There it all was: international effort, the expert, the equipment-everything, indeed, but the common purpose.
"We Will Pass . . ." If there was no essential agreement on Germany at Lancaster House, the Russians and everyone else knew what would follow. The U.S., British and French zones would draw closer together in an economic union. There might be no "separate peace" in the formal sense; occupation troops would...
Last week the deputies of the Big Four got down to preliminary work at Lancaster House. They were a professional crew: the U.S.'s political expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and...