Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hothouse, U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery and U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas were in secret session with French Foreign Minister Bidault. Their object: to get Bidault's O.K. for raising the industrial output of the Ruhr. This week, in London, U.S. and British diplomats, meeting more publicly with the French, will try the same thing...
...London's Economist despaired: "Last week . . . the chief anxiety was whether the Government had a policy. Now, there is growing anxiety whether the country has a Government. ... In difficult times the British people will always respond to strong leadership. By so much more are they likely to be dismayed by the discovery that there is no hand at all at the helm...
...London, the King-Emperor became plain George VI, King of Pakistan and of India (just as he is King of Canada and other dominions beyond the seas). Workmen took down the bronze plate in Whitehall, reading "India Office," replaced it with a painted wooden sign reading "Commonwealth Relations Office...
...dramatized the full impact of Britain's dollar-economy program on the United Kingdom. Britons pined out loud for Dick Haymes and other Hollywood stars. Clergymen and educators, who commented that "now at least we can keep the King's English pure," were in the minority. In London, an enraged electrician's wife echoed the cries of thousands of British women: "This is the last straw; we have no one like Gable in British pictures...
...thought was hardly comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...