Word: winstone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decade-old secrets of Yalta were out. In a sudden, historic move the U.S. Department of State last week released the text of official documents relating to the ill-fated meeting of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in the Crimea. The documents were crammed with illuminating (and often appalling) details of the mood and manner in which the Big Three sliced up the world (see p. 27). In the clamor that followed publication of the papers, most Americans were interested in the answers to two questions: 1) Why did the State Department release them at this time...
...Also fighting colds last week: Britain's Sir Winston Churchill, 80, and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...France does not approve the accords, said Pinay, it will be dangerously isolated. To prove his point he produced a letter from Sir Winston Churchill, saying that if France left her place vacant at international councils, "sooner or later another nation [meaning West Germany] would take her chair." Pinay's case was further bolstered by a message from President Eisenhower, giving assurance that U.S. forces would stay in Europe "while a threat to that area exists." This important U.S. guarantee had been given during the EDC struggle, but it had lapsed with the death...
...Lawrence had come upon hard times. The former colonel who was esteemed by such men as Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw was discouraged, dissatisfied with himself, and, by his own account, penniless. Perhaps, he reasoned, a hitch in the R.A.F. would give him peace of mind. It is doubtful that restless, unstable T. E. Lawrence ever found peace of mind, but the notes he took in barracks became a book whose history is as odd as his own bizarre career. The Mint was finished in India in 1928 (Lawrence had been discharged from the R.A.F., enlisted in the Tank...
Thus far, the H-bomb is the only real deterrent. Britain therefore must have H-bombs of its own. "Unless we make a contribution," Sir Winston rumbled, "we cannot be sure that the targets which would threaten us most [e.g., Soviet missile installations, submarine bases], would be given what we consider the necessary priority in the first few hours...