Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West sailed off to London with a classy new ensemble encasing her old one. Her mission: to let Britons in on Diamond Lit, 19 years after its appearance on Broadway...
...audience was some 2,000 industrialists, businessmen, union and government officials in London's Central Hall. Murmured a businessman, as the president of Britain's Board of Trade tripped to the rostrum: "There he comes, so quietly...
Promptly, a Liberal Party statement cried "Totalitarian." Said the London Daily Mail: "A real snorter. . . " Revolutionary. . . ." Said a Manchester Guardian headline: "TOIL AND SWEAT-BUT NO GLORY...
...dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted that there had been fighting aboard the Runnymede Park. But debarkation from the Empire Rival, it reported, "was characterized by good spirits on the part of both the escort troops and the Jews. As they left the ship many Jews thanked...
...More Bumping. Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express ran the most fascinating story of the gruesome week. One refugee, it reported, "was trailed by the feet down the 30-ft. gangway, his head bumping as he went. This caused a group of American Jewish correspondents to hurl themselves against the wire netting around the press enclosure shouting protests. They were rebuked by a correspondent from the United Press, who told them: 'Remember you are here as reporters, not as sympathizers or propagandists...