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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
...campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton Eisenhower (whom some nearsighted spectators in the crowd of 19,000 greeted with applause and whispers of "There...
...humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
...rose to the top of the traditionally conservative Church of England not through compromise or worldly wisdom but because his abilities simply could not be ignored. Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...
...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...