Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith was one of three Western envoys who, after conferences in Berlin and London, had traveled to Moscow in search of peace. The others were Yves Chataigneau of France and tubby, popular Frank Roberts of Britain's Foreign Office, substituting for Britain's ailing ambassador. Their immediate purpose: to see Foreign Minister Molotov...
...been planned as a rebuff and a "delaying action"; it showed that the Kremlin was not willing that the battle of Berlin should play itself out in the strong-arm terms of Western airlift v. Soviet blockade. It helped to dispel, or at least palliate, a war scare in London, where Foreign Minister Bevin had gravely briefed a grave House of Commons. In answer to a question from Winston Churchill, Mr. Bevin said that the demobilization of 20,000 men a month from the British armed forces could be stopped, and probably would...
...Beach, a Negro with a weakness for red, white & blue berets, is Panama-born, Jamaica-raised, U.S.-schooled (at U.C.L.A.) and the big reason why Mel can make no misstep in the 100-and 200-meter dashes at London...
Married. Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby, 30, one of Britain's richest peers, who succeeded to the 463-year-old title on his grandfather's death in February; and Lady Isabel Milles-Lade, 28, Mayfair beauty; in London, at a wedding attended by the royal family...
Like most such books, this one remains readable despite all the impediments that a style of exaggerated journalese can throw in the way. Example: "With his nostrils distended by the provocative odor from 600 half-barrels of pistol powder, which he had foresightedly ordered from London, Thomas now turned into a full-fledged, fire-eating merchant of death...