Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Scorn. Meanwhile, Spain sent its ambassador to call on Anthony Eden to protest Queen Elizabeth's scheduled visit on May 10 to Britain's fortress on Gibraltar, "Spanish territory unjustly retained by Britain" for 250 years now. Britain, reacting with lofty scorn, saw its feelings aptly expressed in a London Daily Herald headline: THE AMAZING FRANCO DARES TO WARN us. Undeterred by these headlines. 8,000 Madrid students this week stormed the British embassy and were finally driven away after a 2½-hour hassle with the police...
...nine finance ministers of the British Commonwealth gathered to talk about their troubles under Australia's summer sun, Queen Elizabeth appointed Britain's cool, crisp Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler to be a Companion of Honor.* It was one way of dramatizing the fact that Rab Butler was in undisputed charge for Britain at the Sydney conference...
...Foot. This old-school element had little stomach for 42-year-old Milovan Djilas' confident heresies, and it watched with uneasiness his growing support among younger Communists. The old Communists did not like his going to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II or his friendship with such British Socialists as Nye Bevan, Morgan Phillips and Clement Attiee. When Djilas' wordy barbs in Borba got to the old-school Communists, they demanded a showdown, and Tito gave the order...
TELEVISION Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow talks to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Captain Donald Sorrell of the Queen Mary...
When the Windsors were married, she wrote a long series of columns on the event, got herself temporarily banned from the British embassy. When Queen Elizabeth came to the U.S., Evie carped at her for not letting "anybody know which of her evening gowns she'll don." Once Evie and her husband, who runs a family investment company, went to a Saudi Arabian party "just boiling to get a drink," and found that, in accordance with Moslem law. no liquor was being served. Next day. she wrote an indignant "when in Rome" column, and her relations with Saudi Arabia...