Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Britain's new ambassador to the U.S., Sir Oliver Franks, arrived in Washington last week, he expressed the customary sentiments about happy relations between the two countries. The sunny platitudes, however, were clouded by two facts. For one thing, Lulu, the Frankses' cherished family cat, was missing-it had somehow disappeared during the crossing, and was still missing when the Franks disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth. For another thing, U.S.-British relations had suddenly become anything but happy. Said one responsible Briton last week: "President Truman has antagonized our Foreign Office more completely than any American since...
...sick & tired of U.S. pressure; Britain was treaty-bound to help Arab states, and good relations with the Moslem Middle East were as vital for U.S. security as they were for Britain's. But when Bevin calmed down he sent new instructions to Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan at Lake Success: London would stop arms shipments to Arab states, provided the Security Council called for a general arms embargo which would prevent other nations, as well, from shipping arms and men to Palestine. The British also called for a four-week Arab-Jewish truce...
Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...
Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...