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...49th State. Suez exposed Britain's reduced status as a military power, the vulnerability of its economy and the limit of what it once considered the unlimited backing of its closest ally. The danger in all the resultant self-flagellant humility was that Britain might turn to a "Lay this burden down" philosophy, or a retreat into a popular but disastrous attitude of "Let Uncle Sam do it." Yet many in Britain saw that though Colonel Blimp lies punctured, Private Mouse is not necessarily a wiser counselor...
Viscount Chandos (who used to be better known as Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton) wrote last week that although Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. must work together, there is a "need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A spoonful-and it should not be more than a spoonful-of isolationism should also be permitted to us." The new leader of the Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw...
...YORK, Nov. 19--Varsity ace Pete Reider turned in one of the most impressive Crimson cross country performances in recent years as he finished 17th in a field of 350 runners in the 49th annual IC4A Championships at Van Cortlandt Park here this afternoon...
Chink. In Dallas, officers of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard complained to police that prowlers kept entering the division motor compound and taking joy rides in jeeps...
...Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first trip to Paris (through the years she rolled up a total of nearly 100 trips abroad...