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Cordially yours, James A. Linen...
Sprawled in the governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites wanted martial law and an all-out offensive against the Mau Mau. The others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four...
...Legislative Yuan, some called Wu a liar and a coward. In Evanston, Wu replied: "I know that we cannot afford to wash our dirty linen abroad . . . But if the National Assembly wants me to tell the facts . . . I'm prepared to back up my statements any time...
...filled with alabaster busts, stuffed pink cranes, Empire clocks and pictures of himself and other Haitian heroes, the President reads reports and mail, takes a thoughtful second look at work saved over from the night before. At 7:30 he showers and dresses, usually in grey gabardine or white linen, a silk tie with a gold clasp, grey suede shoes. Soon he is sitting at a cluttered desk in a smallish office conspicuously free of ornament...
With this varied appeal, the shop does make profits. These, however, go into an employee assistance fund for emergency need or scholarships. The fund was started during the war when a Cambridge housewife gave the Window Shop some blocked linen to sell, asking that the profits be used for vocational training. Since then the fund has grown and now supports twenty small scholarships for employees' children. It also offers employees emergency...