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Bartley C. Crum, a noted lawyer and member of the 1946 Anglo-American Committee on Inquiry into Palestine, charged last night that, "The Eisenhower Middle East Doctrine is an extension of the Monroe Doctrine into the Eastern Hemisphere...
Crum's distaste for American foreign policy in the Middle East stems from his experiences after the Second World War with Anglo-American "duplicity and intrigue" in regard to allegedly unfulfilled promises to Israel...
...Chicago in the 125 years since the city mushroomed from the swamps, none have seemed so alien or posed such social problems as a recent influx of native-born white Americans. For the past five years, at the rate of more than 1,000 a week, displaced people of Anglo-Saxon stock have been swarming into the city from the scrubby hills, marginal farms and depressed coal-mining areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. For lack of a better term, Chicagoans concerned with the problem lump the minority under the label "hillbillies." Lured to Chicago by Northern...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...
...soon ended. King Edwin, says the Venerable Bede, was impressed and converted. Other historical evidence suggests more crassly that Edwin was converted by his Christian wife, and by the belief that the new faith would be politically advantageous. In any case, the story of the sparrow suggests that Anglo-Saxon palaces must have admitted a good deal of weather along with the birds...