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President Conant will be the guest of honor of the Pilgrims, an Anglo-United States friendship organization, in London on March 18, it was learned yesterday. Plans include a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel...
...support for Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa. Churchill's speech before Congress (see below) put a sharp new firmness in the British outlook. By praising the U.S. stand in Korea and Formosa, by promising "increasing harmony" in the Anglo-American Far Eastern policy, and finally by warning the Communists of "prompt, resolute and effective" retaliation should a Korean truce be broken, the Prime Minister brought Washington and London into dramatic, forceful alignment. It was a bold gesture of leadership that he would have to defend before Parliament...
...drawn the sword for freedom and cast away the scabbard." In 1943, after the victory in North Africa, he had exulted: "One continent redeemed." In 1952, under the clouds of another gathering storm, he spoke with all the avuncular wisdom he had gained as a pilot of the Anglo-American alliance...
Four months ago Sir Henry Gurney, Britain's High Commissioner in Malaya, was murdered by jungle Communists. Last week the British appointed a new High Commissioner to take his place: tall, lean, Anglo-Irish Sir Gerald Templer, one of the scrappiest fighters and toughest administrators in the British army. Winston Churchill had him fly the Atlantic to be looked over before being given a job which will require tact as well as toughness...
Last year, when the Middle East blazed with disputes between oil companies and kings over royalties, Aramco announced a 50-50 profit split with Ibn Saud, increasing his 1951 oil royalties from $60 million to $100 million. Other oil companies, particularly Anglo-Iranian, privately deplored such generosity, but belatedly offered to do likewise. American-British-owned Kuwait Oil Co. had to give Kuwait's Sheik an even better split, and American-British-Dutch-French-owned Iraq Petroleum topped that by agreeing to bring Iraqis into the board of directors...