Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow meet Joseph Stalin. He repeats the Russian view that the Western Allies have no juridical right to be in Berlin, but declares that Russia has no intention of forcing them out. Stalin admits frankly that Russia's blockade was a retaliation against the Western powers' London plan for a Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish...
Barbara Ward is quite a girl. At 34, she is foreign editor of London's soberly brilliant Economist, one of the five governors of the British Broadcasting Corp., and one of Britain's most influential journalists. Last week she was introduced to the U.S. reading public with the publication of her latest book-her first in the U.S.-entitled The West at Bay (Norton; $3.50). Young Miss Ward, a slender, attractive woman who once wanted to become an opera singer, has a great deal to say to the U.S. Her book is an intelligent guide to the world...
...rooms, boardrooms, classrooms, barrooms, the question was asked a million times. Britain, which has recently looked upon the U.S. as somewhat hysterical about the danger of war, was swept by a wave of alarm-but not of panic. The London Daily Mirror reported the British people as "calmly bewildered and apprehensively steady." The phrase was very British, but it described the attitude of the Western world in general. The West was braced for a blow-and it wanted desperately to know whether the blow was likely to come soon, or whether it might be postponed a year...
FORTUNE had also changed its logotype, simplified its makeup, adopted a new body type, and a clean-cut display face (Times roman) originally designed for the London Times by its eminent typographer, Stanley Morison...
...Arthur Rank, having cornered all the movie rights to the XIV Olympiad, has produced a fine film of the games at St. Moritz and London, as complete as general interest and one sitting will stand, well-edited and photographed in excellent technicolor...