Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, King George's Swan Keeper Fred Turk, with four assistants, dutifully and warily rounded up six squawking swans from the Thames at Cookham, packed them off in pairs to hiss and sputter on the odoriferous Tigris at Bagdad. The London News Chronicle muttered sarcastically: "Might help, though...
...last week, more than 200 barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses and dukes sat like sardines. The noble lords were aroused. Shaking his mittened hands, 83-year-old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood inveighed against tyranny. Cried he: "What happened in Berlin yesterday and Moscow today may well happen in London tomorrow!" What was up? It was the perennial question: Would the ornamental House of Lords be allowed to continue their nothing-in-particular in Clem Attlee's day as they had in Wellington...
...London, where Abdullah's Prime Minister and other emissaries last week were talking over a revised treaty of alliance with Britain, Abdullah's British subsidizers thought Abdullah would be more cautious. Said one, when asked whether Abdullah might try to seize Palestine over the protests of other Arab leaders: "We honestly don't believe he will be so silly...
Lice & Rice. Abdullah's military adviser, the man on whom the British most count to keep their useful Arab ally efficient but tractable, was also in London last week-Major General* John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), M.C., D.S.O., Order of El-Istiqlal (Independence), Order of El-Nahdhah (Renaissance...
...debate over quadrennial versus annual interest in amateur athletics is seeping into every corner of the U.S. sports panorama. The showdown should come in July at the track Olympics in London...