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...Queen (in bell-like tones): How truly delighted we are to be here with you, dedicated as we always have been to Anglo-American amity and freedom in its broadest sense...
...Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet Saint-John Perse-who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1960. The current anniversary issue features a political reminiscence by Dean Acheson and a study of Anglo-American relations by Historian Denis Brogan...
...kidney ailment (nephritis), entered the French Ministry of Commerce as a junior official. At the time, France and Britain were bidding against each other for badly needed raw materials, despite the fact they were allies, and no one seemed to know what to do-except Monnet, who proposed an Anglo-French high commission to coordinate procurement and supplies. By war's end, Monnet had made such a brilliant impression in Paris and London that, though only 31, he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the League of Nations...
Winston Churchill thereupon endorsed Monnet's French passport personally, sent him to Washington to help coordinate Anglo-American war-supply planning. It was Monnet who conceived the idea of Lend-Lease. And it was Monnet who coined President Roosevelt's famous fire side-chat slogan: "We must be the great arsenal of democracy...
...theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place to go to die. It is useless for M.D.s to assail this quackery. To the Mexican-American, the gringo doctor is the quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages of cancer when everything else has failed, the Latin American goes to the physician only after all else has failed," said Madsen. "He thinks as much of penicillin as we do of bat wings...