Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Britain, gratitude for Churchill's wartime services had become tinged with impatience. With more sorrow than anger, newspapers began to suggest that it was about time for him to retire. Last week, the News Chronicle advised him to withdraw to his study and write a chronicle of World War II, instead of wasting his eloquence on parliamentary name calling-like "a great poet spending his time writing Christmas cracker mottoes...
...Ultimate Decision. On May 5 the French people will hold a referendum on the Constitution of the Left. The M.R.P., still at week's end the third pillar of the Gouin Government, seemed determined to campaign against it, though such action might force it to withdraw from the administration. If the people reject the proposed Constitution, they will vote, on June 2, for a new Assembly to draft another version. If they accept it, the June election will choose the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic...
Poland, of course, sided with Russia. France's suavely soothing Henri Bonnet gave Russia some unexpected comfort by observing that it would be setting a possibly embarrassing precedent to deprive a small nation of her right to withdraw a complaint against a big nation. But his colleagues were in no mood for compromise...
...follow through with a positive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere might snatch away the victory's fruits. What happened at U.N. last week was this: when the Security Council met to discuss Iran, Russia was still absent. But Andrei Gromyko had written that Russia would withdraw her troops from Iran by early May and that "other questions" like oil and Azerbaijan were "not connected" with the evacuation. Next day Byrnes moved to accept the Soviet reply, with Russia and Iran making a further report on May 6. The Council saw eye to eye with Byrnes...
Inspired Sequence. But the most inspired part of Shakespeare's play deals with the night before the Battle of Agincourt. It is also the most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot...