Word: trevelyan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attlee, made a ritual of rising, walking along the table to clink his glass in gracious courtesy with each delegate. He toasted world peace, Anglo-Chinese friendship, Queen Elizabeth. Chou even attended a banquet given by British Charge d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan, whose very presence Chou had ignored for more than a year...
...Peking, Chou summoned British Chargeé d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan for the first time since Trevelyan arrived a year ago, informed him that he had seen Indo-China's Ho Chi Minh and got his agreement to the projected settlement...
...protests were forwarded through Humphrey Trevelyan, the British charge d'affaires in Peking. A few weeks ago Trevelyan went to Geneva, and was allowed to get closer to Chou En-lai than he ever got in Peking. The U.S. asked him to try again...
Steven Runciman, 49, is a British scholar who wrote his first history essays at Trinity College, Cambridge, under the guidance of the dean of English-language historians, G. M. Trevelyan. He has spent the rest of his life teaching and studying the history of the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe and the Near East. He has traveled widely in the lands he studies, and he can get around linguistically in Greek, Arabic, Syriac and the Slavonic languages. But, like Trevelyan, he believes that history needs good writing as well as sound scholarship. His History of the Crusades, of which...
...concludes Trevelyan, "history and literature have formed one study, one delight, woven together by a thousand crossing strands and threads . . . Our grandfathers were brought up on the classics and the Bible. Both were history and literature closely intertwined, and therefore formed a marvelous education, a much finer education than any which is at all usual today...