Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much more subtly, the Foreign Office stylists reflected the same line as they maneuvered overtly and covertly around the world. In Manhattan, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd held confidential briefings for selected British, European and U.S. diplomatic correspondents (periodicals critical of the Suez policy, such as the Economist and the Observer, were not invited), in which he suggested that 1) the U.S. appeared to be willing to throw down the British alliance for the Arab-Asians; 2) British diplomats were having trouble getting to see U.S. diplomats, 3) the U.S. was threatening the British economy by not sending over...
...revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers, e.g., three Oklahoma City boots were arrested last week, charged with a badly botched conspiracy to kill four competitors. Surveying the situation, Tulsa Tribune Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones concluded: "What we have is a system of gigantic hypocrisy...
Said Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd: "The partners should on occasion be able to act unilaterally and according to the dictates of their best judgment, without jeopardizing the firm foundations of their understanding." Said the London Economist: "Britain's proper attitude towards the U.S. is the attitude that Australia has long maintained towards Britain. It is an attitude of blasphemous private candor about most matters and about awkward Foreign Secretaries, but of sufficient loyalty to allow any American leader to feel confident that when really big issues arise, Britain will never deceive...
Britain's Tories might not much admire the man who said these words, leftist Laborite John Strachey, but they could not ignore some of his home truths. Last week the Tory cabinet assembled to hear the report of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, just back from the U.S. Lloyd had no good news. The U.S. still refused to arrange for emergency oil supplies until the British and French at least announced plans for withdrawal from Suez. After two hours' discussion, the Cabinet made the inevitable reluctant decision: Britain would withdraw. Significantly, in all the week's painful decisions...
Football coach Lloyd Jordan said Tuesday that the University should admit "some hard-nosed kids" to improve Crimson football teams...