Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, these were details which might be ironed out. There was a far greater defect. As London's New Statesman and Nation said: "American assistance on such a scale cannot reasonably be expected unless Congress is presented not merely with a demand note from an Amalgamated Union of Beggars, but with convincing evidence that . . . the recipients will cooperate in undertaking to increase their own productivity and their eventual ability economically to stand on their own feet." Washington simply did not feel that the Paris Plan presented that kind of evidence...
Magic carpets and wishing lamps are hard to come by these days in London's middle-class Fulham. Nevertheless, pretty, honey-blonde Katherine Scott had no intention of living out her years in Marville Road and some day marrying a young shipping clerk or a ?5-a-week railroad carter like her father. One glamorous day, when Cinemactor Ray Milland came to London, 16-year-old Katherine wangled an interview with him and Ray promised to get her a screen test. Katherine told all her friends, and the garish News of the World sent a photographer around to take...
That was last spring. Last week, in London's dingy Caxton Hall Registry Office, the scion of Scheherazade's famed Caliph made the London carter's daughter his Princess. The bride's father did not attend. Said he: " 'Arry asked me to give me daughter away-but I said I couldn't afford to lose a whole day's pay." Said Princess Katherine: "My life will be devoted to my husband and my duties to his subjects...
...unusually fine day at Brize Norton Aerodrome, near London. The U.S. Air Forces C-54 let down to a perfect landing. Out piled 14 passengers and crewmen, including U.S. scientists and a Royal Air Force observer. No one had touched the controls all the way from Newfoundland. The plane had taken off, flown the Atlantic, and landed without a pilot...
...Wilhelm Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League of Nations. Britain's Viscount Grey chose Foreign Affairs for his declaration on freedom of the seas during the London naval conference, and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had recently argued France's case for control of the Ruhr...