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Greatest Disappointment. It was Sir Winston Churchill who furnished the week's worst news. Churchill had clamored loudest for a conference to test Russian intentions, and now declined to recognize the findings of Berlin. In a speech to the House of Commons (see FOREIGN NEWS), Churchill urged a twin-pronged policy of defense and continued negotiations, and drew heaviest applause from the growing bloc of Laborites who oppose EDC. "The net effect of his speech," reported a TIME correspondent, "was to encourage all those who can think of reasons for not taking a definitive and courageous decision in favor...
...giving the rebels aid and comfort was none other than that aging Tory warrior, Sir Winston Churchill (see below...
...Louisville last week, old (76) Alben Barkley stood up before a milkmen's meeting and pointed out that Winston Churchill is now 79, that Cato studied Greek at 82 and that Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason...
Most formidable of Slessor's "notions" was his postwar proposition that the Atlantic alliance could only maintain world peace through "massive deterrent air power." This is how it began. In 1952 Winston Churchill summoned Slessor and the other British chiefs of staff to No. 10 Downing Street and advised them that British finances could not stand an indefinite policy of piling up guns and tanks...
...Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington last week went an unusual application. The McLean Trucking Co. of Winston-Salem, N.C., the South's biggest, wanted permission to go to sea, build ships, and expand into a $50 million land-sea transportation service between Southern and Eastern ports. McLean's reason: highway transportation costs have shot up 50% since 1940, and the company wants a cheaper way of hauling freight...