Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...
...space. Two days later rain threatened, and no galoshes were to be found. Wild with worry, the royal dresser approached Mr. Wilter. Mr. Wilter took steps. Radios hummed and telephone lines crackled across the veld. In time the royal family reached the end of their tour and returned to London...
...Vincent Massey, former High Commissioner to London, in Maclean's: "Our position will remain more dignified and also more effective by maintaining our own special relations with [the U.S.] than by assimilating our position to that of a group of 20 republics. . . . Let us cultivate good relations with Latin America in our own way and not as a cog in the Pan American machine...
...Media's keel had been laid almost before the echo of London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...
Engaged. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, curly-haired eldest daughter of Britain's Labor Prime Minister; to Harold William Shipton, 26, bespectacled electrical engineer; in London...