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...That solution the British hoped to get at Geneva. Until they got it, or it proved impossible to get, they refused to discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China," Winston Churchill told Parliament. "Until the outcome of the conference is known, no final decision can be taken on a collective defense pact in Southeast Asia . . . Her Majesty's government has not embarked on any negotiations involving commitments," and would not until after Geneva...
...better-informed publications there was recognition that Britain had also contributed its bit to confusion among the allies. The weekly Spectator blamed equally"Mr. Dulles' tendency to underestimate the diplomatic difficulties of a strong policy, President Eisenhower's unwillingness to give a courageous lead," and "Sir Winston Churchill's determination to stake everything on high-level international meetings, the unwillingness of the British government to back the undoubtedly clumsy but fundamentally sound basic American policy of firmness in the face of all Communist maneuvers...
Laborite Bevan's reckless political course, leading to his resignation from his party's parliamentary committee (TIME, April 29), was also getting him in trouble. Sir Winston Churchill gloated that Nye's revolt had left him "a stranded whale." Last week the whale was expertly harpooned by Bevan's No. 1 rival in the Labor Party, Deputy Leader Herbert Morrison. Apparently with full approval of Clement Attlee, Morrison, in the Laborite monthly Socialist Commentary, accused
...What fun," observed Winston Churchill in 1907, envisioning the future dam, "to make the immemorial Nile begin its journey by diving through a turbine...
...critics greeted Gunn's latest effort with wintry disdain. But the public found his royal portrait even more of an attraction than Winston Churchill's four cheerfully unskilled contributions to the R.A. show. Gunn's work is nothing if not skilled, and it is as sumptuous as any chocolate-box cover...