Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
...London last week, from Blackfriars to Tilbury, the normally bustling Thames-side was a brackish backwater. Its forest of cranes was all but motionless. At its wharves 154 ships, Plimsolls awash, groaned to be delivered of cargoes. This week many a Briton would eat more corned beef and dislike it, while fresh beef, Irish eggs and succulent tomatoes waited or rotted beneath battened hatches and in warehouses. Equally worrisome to Britain was the fact that a flood of goods intended for the export trade was piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things...
Lest their housecleaning inspire some possible Monmouth kin (he was the illegitimate son of Charles II) to new activity against the House of Windsor, or bring Anne of Cleves's Dutch connections flocking to London to claim a place at court, the Lords were careful to add a rider. "This act," they informed anyone nursing an old grudge or claim, "shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything done or suffered, or any existing status or capacity, or any right, title, obligation or liability...
...course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...
...London's famed Sadler's Wells company was putting on a new ballet. The orchestra struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly...