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...Truths. Fortunately, within the Tory Party itself there are some who have become increasingly uneasy over the waituntil-after-Geneva policy, and acutely worried over the possibility of a permanent Anglo-American breach. Their spokesman is the Marquess of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council and one of Churchill's closest advisers on foreign policy. Salisbury was the only Tory to publicly dissociate himself from Britain's recognition of Red China. At last summer's Washington conference, where he deputized for the ailing Eden, he was the only Western minister to declare that the Berlin conference (which...
...also a simple man. And goodness and simplicity are a couple of tough customers ... In this country, battered and squeezed as no victorious nation has ever been before and disillusioned almost beyond endurance, he has been welcomed with an exuberance that almost makes us blush behind our precious Anglo-Saxon reserve. I never thought that friendliness had such a sharp cutting edge. I never thought that simplicity could cudgel us so damned hard. We live and learn...
Both Italy and Yugoslavia demand "peace with honor" in any Trieste settlement. Earlier Anglo-American proposals were doomed to failure because they did not represent a compromise. This one does. While Italy renounces its claim to Zone B, Yugoslavia loses the city itself, and the British and Americans pay for a new port...
...Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side of the world building a 100,000-bbl.-a-day oil refinery in Aden for the Anglo-Iranian...
Thomas' own language intensifies the drawback of reading any work designed for radio. He achieves poetry in his choice of phrase, not in formal rhythm; and he has dotted the script with Anglo-Welsh words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks...