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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Laborites enjoyed a few moments of high glee when conservative, ruddy-jowled Sir John Anderson said that he did not want to see the sort of events that followed World War I. Since Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time Sir John referred to, Labor members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Grit & Tintacks | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Over the Fence? Attlee stuck doggedly to his decision not to hold an election this year. A straw poll recently conducted by Labor's Transport House had indicated that if the election were held now, Labor would get a majority of not more than 40 seats in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Grit & Tintacks | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

A handsome, wealthy young Briton came up from his country home one day last week to stay with his brother at the Ritz in London and have a talk with his doctor. Society reporters knew him as the Hon. Peter Beatty, one of Britain's "most eligible bachelors." Sportwriters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lucky | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

In his first-floor suite at the Ritz last week, the day after he had seen his London doctor for the last time, Peter refused the breakfast proffered by his valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lucky | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Zaisser removed from the People's Police a hard core of former Nazi officers, carefully screened P.W.s and recruited youths. Then he set them up in Bereitschaften under direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Drang Nach Wesfen | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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