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Such defensiveness would have seemed unlikely a few weeks ago. Not since Smoot-Hawley days had Washington witnessed such an explosion of demand to limit imports as occurred in August and early September. Fretted Sir Roy Denman, Ambassador of the European Community to Washington: "We have seen protectionist sentiment before, but never anything like this...
...tension between London and Moscow began on Sept. 12. Two days later Soviet Foreign Ministry Official Vladimir Suslov angrily denounced the initial British expulsion order as a "hostile and malicious" action designed to "poison Anglo-Soviet relations." Suslov handed British Ambassador Sir Bryan Cartledge a list of Britons slated to be expelled...
...took the Soviets two days to retaliate: then they listed 25 British diplomats, businessmen and journalists who would have to leave Moscow within three weeks. Ambassador Sir Bryan Cartledge was called to the foreign ministry and told that those being expelled had engaged in "activities incompatible with their status," diplomatic language for spying. Cartledge described the charges as absurd. At week's end it was not clear whether Britain would raise the stakes by ejecting still more Soviet officials who might have been fingered by Gordievsky...
...line off Newport, R.I., capturing the America's Cup and ending 132 years of U.S. sailing supremacy. Americans were astonished when John Bertrand, an unknown naval engineer, steered his boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake...
...Power worship," many critics suggest, was the particular Mitford sin, and the Guinnesses partially agree. Diana, the beauty of the family, with passionate eyes set in a curiously passive face, showed "a potential for extremism." Translation: she fell in love with British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley and the ideas he believed...