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Would it be possible (or would it take just pages?) to include ... a list of the government agencies to which you so glibly refer by initials only? . . . Many a time the full title of the agency under discussion is not included anywhere in the article...
...humiliation." Sedater journals, as they usually do, got in their licks by gently reminding their readers that the British, alas, need their impulsive U.S. friends. The leader of Britain's Socialists felt a like impulse. "There is a lot of loose talk about the U.S. from people who refer to American imperialism and similar phrases," said Clement Attlee, "but no country in history has ever made greater efforts to help other countries than the U.S. has done in the last six years...
...There is one respect," Crockford's conceded, "in which none could suggest that bishops nowadays fail to adorn their office. We refer to robes and external decorations . . . Long-traditional practice and restraint have been largely displaced by sartorial idiosyncrasy. Of copes and mitres we speak no evil, but we think parading in a scarlet robe . . . is ridiculous, if not worse...
...your review of the fourth volume of the History of the Times in your issue of May 19, you refer to "Britain's ally, Czechoslovakia." The myth that Britain was the ally of Czechoslovakia at the time of Munich has long been fostered in the United States, and it is regrettable that it should gain new currency in your own authoritative columns. Though some of us thought at the time of Munich that it was in Britain's interest to fight in defence of Czechoslovakia's freedom, our country had no more moral or legal obligation...
...Though, popularly, Washingtonians refer to it as "the Mellon Gallery...