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With hardly any advance warning, the Foreign Ministers of the U.S. and France hopped to London last week to examine in private the cracks and crevices in their alliance, without, as Winston Churchill said, having to "cut attitudes before excitable publics." It was a hasty get-together. As they met, new problems popped up around them...
...Then Sir Winston said: Suppose that he alone went to Moscow for a man-toman talk with Malenkov? A little more gently, Dulles advised against...
...Winston Churchill, skilled fashioner of what he once called that "noble thing," the English sentence, last week went literature's biggest crown, the Nobel Prize for literature. Not only his 27 books were taken into account, said the Swedish Academy, but also the "brilliant oratory in which he stood forward as the defender of eternal human values...
...Downing Street, receiving the Swedish ambassador, Sir Winston was almost blushingly delighted. "It is a literary distinction," he said. "I am particularly proud of that...
...tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston's friends paid him honor. "Historian laureate," said the New York Herald Tribune. "His countrymen can share in his pride," said the Times of London...