Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the week, Rusk was host at his Waldorf-Astoria suite to British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Andrei Gromyko for a two-hour lunch which featured roast veal, champagne, with a dessert of lukewarm detente...
Secretary Lord Home is convinced that if Britain does reject membership in the NATO force, its exclusion may have political consequences as serious as its original decision to cold-shoulder the Common Market; inevitably, MLF will itself mark an important step toward military and political integration of Europe. Moreover, reasons Home, if West Germany is the principal U.S. partner in the undertaking, Washington may well develop a "special relationship" with Bonn that would leave Britain in even greater isolation...
...Majesty's Stationery Office announced jubilantly last week that the celebrated blue-bound volume entitled Lord Denning's Report (price: $1.05) had sold nearly 100,000 copies in 24 hours, an alltime record for an official document. Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition had somewhat less reason to rejoice. The report, based on a three-month investigation of the Profumo affair by Britain's second-ranking judge, dismissed most major charges and every squalid rumor of government culpability in the case. In 60,000 lucid words, Denning rejected persistent reports that other Tory ministers had been involved...
...reportedly paid to have his face cropped from pornographic pictures introduced at the trial. The minister in question submitted to an examination by a doctor "of the highest eminence," proving that his "physical characteristics differed in unmistakable and significant respects" from those of the duchess' nude friend. Lord Denning could hardly resist adding that he had obtained new evidence that "indicated who the 'unknown man' was. But I need not go into it here...
...speak of, compared with his own jet-and-missile-equipped 400,000-man force, was an incongruity that did not deter Sukarno. "The flowering of the Indonesian people will not retreat in the face of colonialism," he said. "We must fight and destroy Malaysia." Last week Foreign Secretary Lord Home declared solemnly that Britain was determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down slightly and restored phone and telegraph communications with Malaysia, Britain's military headquarters in the Far East were making full preparations to fight if Sukarno carried his threats...