Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S PRESS EDITOR GIVES EXCELLENT ACCOUNT NEWSPRINT-HUNGRY FLEET STREET [TIME, DEC. 15] BUT ERRS GRIEVOUSLY IN SWEEPING STATEMENT "U.S. NEWS RARELY MAKES THE FRONT PAGES UNLESS IT IS SUCH MUSICOMEDY STUFF AS THE 'HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS."' IN 78 ISSUES OF THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED BETWEEN SEPT. 11 AND DEC. 10 AMERICAN NEWS APPEARED ON FRONT PAGE ON 71 DIFFERENT DAYS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE SEVERAL AMERICAN STORIES ON FRONT PAGE. . . . HARDLY ANY OF THEM DEALT WITH THE HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS...
...through three events in the official life of George Marshall. On Jan. 7, a disillusioned man, he returned from his unsuccessful mission to China to take over the job of formulating and guiding the nation's foreign policy. Near the year's end, on Dec. 15, in London's Lancaster House, he angrily and coldly ended the Foreign Ministers' conference. These two events bracketed the year; the second ended an era of false hopes and hopeful judgments...
...Assembly rostrum, Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky counterattacked with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...
Would the U.S. people stick to their course? The opinion of a visitor may be more pertinent than the guess of a native. This week, in the New York Times maga zine, Barbara Ward, foreign editor of London's Economist, who had made two trips to the U.S. in 1947, wrote: "I believe that the American people-the only people in the world who thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into...
...Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed hole...