Word: selwyn
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Eden wants to keep his personal control of the Foreign Office, where he served so long under Churchill, and in Selwyn Lloyd has a younger man with whom he has worked closely before...
...flow of speech and the spate of words in the United Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs...
Last week, reporting to an almost empty House of Commons, British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd told what went wrong. The West had put forward a new, more flexible plan for controlled nuclear disarmament: the Russians budged "not an inch." But, added Lloyd, "I do not despair. What we have to do now is to mobilize world opinion. I believe we have really produced a blueprint for disarmament which is, in spite of all the incredible difficulties, workable...
Though more polite, Tories talked the same way (no one had a kind word for Dulles). "Her Majesty's government believe that the [Peking] government should represent China in the United Nations," said Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd. "We do not say that recognition should come at once, but it... should be discussed...
...talked themselves into an unhappy readiness to fight, while all the time hoping a fight might be avoided. To avoid inflaming the public, both nations, by unspoken agreement, had clamped a firm censorship on the almost daily clashes in the zone. Last week Britain's Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd broke the silence, reporting to the House of Commons that since April 1, Egyptians had on 30 occasions attacked British servicemen and installations. Egypt told foreign reporters that the British had killed eight Egyptians and wounded 17 others in the same period, but the volatile Cairo public was told...