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Demarest was 18 and majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training hardly prepared Mike for his rugged American shipmates, but he found them so fascinating and life at sea in wartime so exciting that he signed up with the Merchant Marine soon after he landed in New York. "By the time the war ended," he said, "I just couldn...
...when Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com pany, the Western powers, faced with a similar threat, applied economic sanctions...
...could be no misunderstanding of U.S. feeling, the President transferred able U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who had been involved in the earlier offers to Nasser, to South Africa, replaced him by uncommitted Raymond A. Hare (see Foreign Relations). From London quickly came an official announcement that offers for the Anglo-Egyptian loan likewise were being canceled and private comments that Britain would not feel amiss if Nasser's debacle resulted in his downfall...
...many a Briton, the U.S. is a land of sounding darkness, loud with the cries of wild-eyed politicians and the gunfire of Chicago gangsters, and spottily lit by the glaring floodlights of Hollywood. About a year ago, two specialists on Anglo-American relations were gloomily talking over drinks in a London pub. The problem, they agreed, was to show America in the even light of everyday. "What we want," said Bradley Connors, public-relations counselor of the U.S. embassy, "is something like Alistair Cooke. Something that gets the flavor of America on TV as Cooke does on radio." Leonard...
...stiff as Kitchener's the day the dervishes whirled and charged him at Omdurman. But all the pomp and bluster of yesterday were missing last week when the last British soldiers pulled out of another great outpost of Empire. Five days before the deadline set by the Anglo-Egyptian agreement, Brigadier John H. S. Lacey handed over the keys of his Suez Canal headquarters to Lieut. Colonel Abdullah Azouni of the Egyptian army and quietly led the last 91 of Britain's 80,000-man garrison aboard a landing craft bound for Cyprus...