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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came the diplomats of 51 nations, the representatives of four-fifths of the world's people. Most important among them was the top messenger of Russia's policy, Vyacheslav Molotov. He arrived in capitalistic high style-on the first voyage of the giant British liner Queen Elizabeth as a peacetime luxury ship (see BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Patience | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Wally Windsor was never a queen, but she managed a faint Marie Antoinettish echo on her return (temporary) to Britain last week. Asked about her wardrobe by a reporter who had just seen three army trucks and two jeeps dump about two tons of baggage, the Duchess said: "We hardly brought anything. Things are fantastic in Paris now. No one will be able to buy clothes there any more if they keep putting the prices up." The conversation turned naturally from clothes to parties. Would the Duchess do much entertaining? "I am here," she said, "in a very unofficial capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor Trouble | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...Queen Elizabeth took the helm of the SS. Queen Elizabeth on its first postwar run down the Clyde. Said Her Majesty: "It felt lovely-just lovely." Then, while her daughters inspected the engine room, the Queen had a spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes piped him on his way to Balmoral Castle. The Eisenhowers' hosts there: George VI and Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Darkest America | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Hollywood Players (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS), Bette Davis in a half-hour version of Elizabeth the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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