Word: tedder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, it was still so virulent that in many clubs the topic of Suez had to be tacitly forbidden. In the House of Lords, Lord Tedder (Ike's air marshal in World War II) called Suez "a tragic mistake" which had split the nation. "One even knows of families who are giving up their Christmas gathering because they know there will be fighting over this issue...
Last week one of the most influential voices in Britain spoke out against trying to build a Maginot Line of the air. Arthur William, Lord Tedder, Britain's top air strategist in World War II, deputy commander of SHAEF under Eisenhower and now vice chairman of the BBC, said that any reliance on passive defense (meaning a huge complex of radar screens, interceptor planes and antiaircraft weapons) would not "provide a deterrent to aggression [but would] bankrupt the free world and hand it over to Communism and chaos without a blow...
Speaking to the Air League of the British Empire, scholarly, pipe-puffing Air Marshal Tedder said: "I am one of those who believe that for some four or five years after . . . 1945, aggression was averted by the U.S. atomic bomber force. I do not think that the fact that the Russians have now developed their own atomic weapons really lessens that deterrent effect; the fearful counterthreat is still there . . . Provided that the free nations make it clear without a shadow of a doubt or vestige of bluff that they are ready and able to deliver the atomic weapon and face...
...Mission Chief Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit); Washington officials (Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg to report on her recent trip to Korea, General Walter Bedell Smith, Ike's wartime Chief of Staff and now head of the Central Intelligence Agency) ; foreign dignitaries (Air Marshal Lord Tedder, Bank of Greece Governor George Mantzavinos); politicos (Louisiana's Republican Chairman John Minor Wisdom to talk about building a two-party system in the South, New York's Representative John Taber, next chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, who guardedly guessed that next year's budget can be held below...
...Lord Tedder, former Marshal of the Royal British Air Force, and Chancellor of Cambridge University, praised President Conant yesterday. Speaking at a Pilgrim luncheon in London, Tedder lauded Conant for having spoken "so wisely and frankly about the misuse of nationalism." In his speech, Conant rejected the treatment of atomic research as a matter of national pride...