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...week's end reports that Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill now favors delay in bringing up the question of U.N. membership for Red China (see FOREIGN NEWS) were circulated in official Washington. Previously, Churchill had warned U.S. officials that there probably would be a move for Communist China's entry this fall...
...question arose on the Senate floor just after Sir Winston Churchill had sailed for home. Up Pennsylvania Avenue, from the White House, came word that Prime Minister Churchill had told President Eisenhower that there may be a British-supported drive to admit Red China to the U.N. this fall. Dwight Eisenhower snapped out a firm, quick reply: the U.S. is more opposed than ever to giving China's U.N. seat to the Reds...
...other words, France could no longer maintain the fiction that she was one of the world's Big Five, a fiction nurtured by De Gaulle and his successors, affirmed again and again by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, made statutory in the permanent seats of the U.N. Security Council. As events have shown, and as Mendès-France affirms in effect, it was just an illusion, and the effort of maintaining it in Indo-China proved disaster in fact. What Mendès is now proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power...
...length of a lunch in a Kansas City hospital, drew himself up to a table and with gusto devoured a square meal. Near by lay a get-well-quick wire from Washington, signed by two White House visitors, old British friends of Truman's: Winston and Anthony. While his obituaries were being filed away for another day, Truman was finding out that even some of his old enemies seemed happy about his recovery: the Chicago Tribune, which barked at the White House all the time Truman lived there, now said: "There are a lot of things wrong with Harry...
Shortly after her husband took off for Washington with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to appraise the decline of the West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Mrs. Clarissa Eden, 34, Sir Winston's niece and wife of Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, nervously checked into a London hospital for observation...