Word: royale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove you out of it, but when the decision was reached he was absolutely loyal." There were others: General George Marshall, General Omar Bradley and Britain's Royal Air Force Marshal Portal. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "Each of these men, like each of us, had his own strengths, and here and there, I should think, his weaknesses . . . It's not profitable to try to show where you believe you were better than...
...smacking Sunday Pictorial under the byline of William Charles Ellis, 51, boss of a pub in Hertfordshire called the Plough and Dial but, until last November superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. His chatter was the latest in a series of tattle tales about royal family life to appear in London's popular press, ranging from the governess' gabble of the 1950 The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, to the more recent manly sacrifices of Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret's boy friend, as told by his friend, Norman Barrymaine...
...last week it was evident that the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, had had enough. A government official stalked into the Plough and Dial, handed Pubkeeper Ellis a royal injunction restraining him from publishing any further details about the royal family. The injunction pointed out that Ellis, on resigning, had allegedly given his word in writing-now required of all palace employees-that he would not publish any account of any incident or conversation that had come within his knowledge as a result of his royal employment...
...first, the uproar had not seemed much more than the complaining of a few free-spirited tribal chiefs aroused by the tax collectors. A Royal Commission sent out from the capital in Rabat reported that the trouble was mainly economic and social-the tribesmen felt they were being treated like poor relations by the "city slickers" in the government. But privately, they warned that the problem was serious. Tribal leaders were "in touch" with the Algerian rebels, and spoiling for trouble. Their quarrel, insisted the tribesmen, was only with the politicians, not with King Mohammed...
Almost everywhere else, Britain is letting its crown colonies move toward self-government, even independence, more quickly than it often thinks wise. But Britain turned back the clock last week on the island of Malta, site of the Royal Navy's main base in the Mediterranean. Unable to satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound...