Word: pro-british
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Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored-to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera...
...Verdillac went to Acre instead of General Dentz, because he is more pro-British, less anti-De Gaulle than his superior. With Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson at the H-shaped conference table was General Georges Catroux, Free French commander of the campaign, condemned to death by Vichy. The sight of him might have caused General Dentz pain. General de Verdillac, however, lost no time in putting things on a cozy footing. He leaned toward an Australian sentry, winked, made a throat-slitting gesture with one hand and whispered: "Les Baches...
...huge roadstead, capable of mooring the largest fleets. It has a seaplane landing as well as facilities for watering, coaling and minor repairs. For the last few weeks its ample anchorage has been taxed by a constantly shifting flotilla of about 100 merchant ships of all pro-British registries...
...Trans-Jordan pro-British Emir Abdullah was reported shot and badly wounded by his son just as he was about to march into Iraq to help the British...
...Nazi diplomatic protests were made to the Argentine Foreign Office last week. The first, coldly furious, objected to an expose of Nazi fifth columners in Argentina, published in the well-edited, pro-British picture magazine Desfile. The second objected to the same magazine's reprinting from LIFE (Dec. 9) the speech allegedly made to a secret Nazi council by Nazi Minister of Agriculture Richard-Walther Darre ("We will introduce . . . a new aristocracy of German masters. . . . We actually have in mind a modern form of medieval slavery which we must and will introduce because we urgently need it in order...