Word: swinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cartel. Britain's tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...Freedoms. Having lost his main battle, Lord Swinton fought a rear-guard action under cover of the five freedoms. Complaining that the freedoms, as drawn, were too favorable to the U.S., he blocked any agreement. (One British delegate talked bitterly of "the freedom to strangle small nations.") In a final attempt to end this deadlock last week, Berle, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State this week (see U.S. AT WAR), presented a "take it or leave it" version of the freedoms...
...dripping Army tent in Buna last week a heavy-set Boston surgeon, Major Neil Swinton, wiped the sweat from his balding head, looked down at the soldier on the stretcher-newest patient of the "fourth portable." The boy was dirty, his eyes were closed, his chest was taped where the Major had cut out a sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before...
...chest and abdominal wounds-right down his alley. The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed. They were only a small part of the wounded. Most of the cases were less dangerous- arm, leg, back or buttock wounds. There was only one amputation. Major Swinton's portable had to dig four wells on their bit of dry land before they found a place that was not full of dead Japs...
...asked tall, spinster-like Independent Austin Hopkinson, had the Prime Minister insisted on making a mystery of the Swinton Committee...