Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilfrid Eady, who succeeded Lord Keynes as traveling ambassador for the British Treasury, and Cameron Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, had got as far as India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops...
...suggested, without extravagance, that our modern Western Civilization would probably have been derived from an Irish instead of a Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that...
...trade mission was getting nowhere. Perón, who had assumed control of all meat shipments abroad (including those of British-owned packing plants), wanted to hike beef prices 200%, asked 2½% interest on Argentina's $750 million sterling credit, now frozen in Britain. Mission Chief Sir Wilfrid Eady was surprised by this "cold hostility." He packed his negotiators across the Plata Estuary to Uruguay, waited to see if Perón would change his mind...
...week the British were lobbing trade missions across the South Atlantic like cannon shells.* The first, or 6-inch, mission was a Board of Trade venture. Suave Sir Percivale Liesching, who headed it, had already conferred with Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. But he was only scouting for Sir Wilfrid Eady's 16-inch, or Treasury mission which arrives this week. Sir Montague Eddy had come along to advise on railroads. And if the knights needed any help, there was the Marquess of Linlithgow, ex-Viceroy of India, now missioning in Argentina for the Midland Bank...
...Wilfrid and his fellow missionaries had two tough nuts to crack: 1). find some way of making good the $750 million credit, now frozen in Britain, that Argentina built up with wartime food shipments; 2) get a return on their own $1½ billion investment in Argentina...