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There were at least a few encouraging signs-such as the Russian promise to move their troops out of Iran-that Paul Antonio's prayer had been heard. As UNO met, international affairs had returned to what wise Viscount Grey of Fallodon, in referring to another Iranian crisis of 40 years ago, had called "an equipoise of bad relations...
Foot in mouth. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein last week chose this defense for a necessary reduction of German food rations in the British zone to a near-starvation 1,000 calories a day: "Germans gave the inmates of Beisen only 800 calories." Short, spare Montgomery added: "Big, overgrown Germans have got to tighten their belts...
Wecter: "[William Waldorf Astor] on June 3, 1917 . . . became Viscount Astor, amid jeers from a large section of the British press which accused him of buying the title outright...
Cassini: ". . . William Waldorf removed himself to England, became a British subject and amid jeers from a large section of the British press, which accused him of buying the title outright, became . . . Viscount Astor...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...