Word: restorationism
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Listeners to the Third have heard Thomas Mann speak on George Bernard Shaw; T. S. Eliot on Virgil; Joyce Cary and Henry Green on novels. Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, was broadcast uncut from Venice, and the Third has won itself a slightly risque reputation...
Last week the pressures seemed to converge on Clem Attlee. Over the transatlantic phone, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell (attending the Washington and Ottawa conferences of the Big Three and NATO Council) told the Prime Minister that the dollar situation looked blacker than ever. Then came news that Nye...
The second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew...
Tito was to invade Hungary, and Grösz would become regent, paving the way for a restoration of Austrian Pretender Otto of Habsburg. Grösz was to prepare for this coup by organizing resistance groups inside Hungary, including the boy scouts. The U.S. would finance the whole affair...
It was a frank admission that the Administration had once hoped, but could no longer hope to tidy up that torn country by military action. To get a cease-fire agreement from the Communists, the Administration was resigned to the minimum goal-the restoration of the status quo ante. The...