Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Foster Dulles was lucky: he could get away, at least for a few days, from the room in Lancaster House where the air was thick with boredom, and stale mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria...
...action acknowledged that the straitened British would have to keep their reimposed exchange controls awhile. In an exchange of letters between London and Washington, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps promised to lift currency controls "at the earliest possible time." (Few observers expect this time to arrive in the next two years.) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder told Sir Stafford that the $400 million would help Britain "to maintain its present austerity program...
Delhicate Delhi. In time, he became one of England's most prolific landscapists. His epilepsy (the attacks of "the Terrible Demon" were recorded in his diary with little x's) made him restless, drove him and his sketchbook on continuous travels, from "Foggopolis" (his name for London) to the Continent, to the Near East, and finally to making "Delhineations of Delhicate" Delhi. He was constantly seasick, was pelted with sticks & stones by irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days...
Promising Trial. Last summer the flying tankers, rising from a field in the Azores, refueled 21 nonstop flights from London to Bermuda. Every contact went smoothly. If the North Atlantic trials show the same excellent performance, Sir Alan predicts that many airlines will adopt his system...
Like the eggless breakfast and the eye-cup-sized jigger, the skinny London newspaper is a hard fact for a visitor to get used to. After eight lean years, British journalists are not used to it either. Wrote Lord Layton, chairman of London's Liberal News Chronicle, while head of the industry's newsprint rationing committee: "With international responsibilities second to none, our newspapers are among the smallest in the world. . . . You cannot build . . . a peaceful world on ignorance or breed world citizens if they have no access to knowledge...