Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arranged three months ago in the rosy afterglow of the Munich Deal, the trip was not expected to amount to much more than the formalizing of a standoff. This prospect was underscored when, much to II Duce's disappointment, the British stopped "for tea" with Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet in Paris. There they were informed once again that France will not countenance Mr. Chamberlain as a "mediator" to settle Italian-French troubles...
...foggy afternoon 100 years ago last week a horse cart rattled from the murky London docks to Mincing Lane with eight deodar chests containing 350 Ibs. of tea. This was the first consignment of tea grown in the British Empire and Auctioneer William J. Thomson knocked it down at a record price of 25 shillings a pound to a patriotic Captain Pidding...
Most crucial test of the Chamberlain policy will come this week when the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax go to Rome. They will stop over for a two-hour tea in Paris, where French Premier Edouard Daladier is expected to warn Mr. Chamberlain not to start appeasing Dictator Benito Mussolini with French territory. Mr. Chamberlain's dilemma at Rome will be that he cannot get concessions from Italy (such as less co-operation with Germany, no more menacing gestures toward France) without giving away something, and he cannot give away much without arousing opposition at home...
That the U. S. became a nation of coffee-swizzlers was no more accident than Great Britain's taking to tea. Coffee reached England about 1650 from Arabia, tea about 1857 from China. In the interval, England's great East India Company let Dutch and French exporters grab most of the coffee trade. So British patriots turned to tea. Later, the East India Company tried to force its monopoly on the American Colonies under the notorious Tea Act. So American patriots held the Boston Tea Party and turned to coffee...
Today hot coffee is served in 96.4% of U. S. homes, hot tea in 87.5%, but the quantity of coffee drunk is far greater. While the U. S. has contrived no coffee ceremony to parallel the Japanese tea ceremony, it has paid coffee a typical American tribute: in Massachusetts in 1865 the percolator was invented. And nowadays a cornerstone of economic solidarity between the 21 American republics is the annual purchase of 13,000,000 bags of coffee-mostly the lower-priced coffees of Brazil, partly the quality coffees of Colombia, which are frequently used, as Turkish tobacco is used...