Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week in Washington a worried little group of Britons and Canadians sat down to discuss with their U.S. opposite numbers what measures could be taken to save Britain from economic disaster (see INTERNATIONAL). To much of the U.S., sunny and prosperous in the late summer, the British crisis had an unreal look to it. Many a citizen could only take it on faith that behind the talk of the dollar gap, Britain's inadequate production and devaluation of the pound lay a dire threat to the stability of the Western World. In Washington, where men faced one another...
...Bitter Enemies." Abruptly, one .day late in July, Barsov left. Soon he turned up at the Russian embassy in Washington. Outside official Russian circles no one knows whether U.S.S.R. agents threatened him with reprisals against his family or whether he simply asked to go home...
...film ended, Greer had decided to sacrifice her worthless relatives to justice. She explained that this would have been her late empire-building husband's decision. "He wanted power because he knew how to use it," she said. Tito sat up straight again...
Acheson's conversion was too late to save the House $100 million proposal. But MAP has still to pass the Senate. There
...Laurent hesitated, then asked the advice of the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop pf Quebec. The cardinal urged him to take the job, pointing out that as a symbol of national unity in wartime it was important to have a prominent French Canadian in the cabinet. On the day St. Laurent accepted the post, a new granddaughter was born in a Quebec hospital. Louis St. Laurent traveled over from Ottawa to see the baby, stood over her crib and mused aloud: "For myself, I may be making a mistake, but perhaps in the long run this child will benefit...