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...Middle East, the U.S. and Britain have failed to arrive at several important decisions that are long overdue. Iranian oil could start flowing again if Britain and Iran could be induced to agree on such minor issues as whether a new Anglo-American-Iranian oil company should be incorporated in Iran or Britain. U.S. aid to Egypt is postponed pending settlement of the Suez Canal issue with Cairo...
Farmhouses & Gardens. The talks were private. By last week the Anglo-American negotiators had traversed half the hard ground to a meeting of minds between Italy and Yugoslavia. Tito's representatives had now tentatively accepted the Anglo-American plan; the next step would be to take it up with Italy. The secrecy was designed to prevent either side from claiming prematurely it had got the best of the deal. The secrecy had been fairly well honored, except for two conspicuous leaks by Tito to newsmen...
Throughout Britain last week there was a heady feeling of optimism over the prospect of doing more business with Red China. Back from trade talks with the Chinese Communists at Geneva, top-drawer representatives of British industry burbled about "new possibilities of contact" which had been opened up for Anglo-Chinese trade. The representatives came from such austere bodies as the Federation of British Industries (Britain's N.A.M.), the Association of British Chambers of Commerce and the National Union of Manufacturers. This week the Chinese announced that they will exchange trade missions with Britain...
...with a Million (Rank; United Artists) is borrowed from a Mark Twain short story that dealt entertainingly with the fabled eccentricity of the British and the equally well-known resourcefulness of Americans. The film is an Anglo-American enterprise, directed by Ronald (The Promoter} Neame, written by Jill Craigie (wife of M.P. Michael Foot), and starring Hollywood's veteran Gregory Peck...
...Gordon was avenged in the British manner," and Khartoum became the capital of that "pleasant fiction" entitled "the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan." Few of Gordon's works have survived like his legend-and few Britons are likely to swap this for the brave man of flesh & blood who used humbly to say: "I've been very low, old fellow. Don't be hard on me. This is a terrible country...