Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner in Paris. When Ernie Bevin padded across Westminster's central lobby one day last week, M.P.s looked anxiously at each other. Why was he wasting time in London? But Ernie had merely dropped into the House for a quick lunch. That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy...
Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
...Young Bird Knows. Gandhi seriously began his own self-discipline when he went to South Africa as a London-educated vakil (barrister) at the age of 23. There he first felt the full weight of the white man's color bar. More & more he neglected a lucrative law practice to lead his fellow Indians in a fight against local anti-Indian laws...
...fire was still in aging (59) Avery Brundage's eyes when he got to London three weeks ago. Straight-laced Avery, boss of the U.S. Olympic Committee, glared at International Amateur Athletic Federation delegates from 23 nations and announced: "I am here under protest . . . the discussion of payments to athletes in my opinion is not consistent with amateurism and is out of order. ... I challenge these proceedings." The delegates squirmed a bit in their seats, then pigeonholed a proposal to pay athletes $4 a day during next year's Olympic games, to be held just outside London...
Less than two hours later Georgi Zarubin, Soviet ambassador to London, arrived by plane...