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Last week, Sir Oliver expressed a philosophy of a moderately hopeful sort in a New York speech before the Pilgrims, an old, famed Anglo-American friendship society. Said Sir Oliver of British-American relations...
...Future. Now, says the Times, "these quick, tremendous, inventive, bold people are to be tested once more." For the third time in history their empire is on the rocks. It broke up once when Joan of Arc smashed the Anglo-French alliance. It abandoned the Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens...
...shipping magnate, "over 70," who had hired many Englishmen and Oxonians for his business, had found them "particularly good and useful," and wanted more like them in the world. The donor also hoped that St. Anthony's might contribute to peace and "Western understanding" by encouraging Anglo-French friendships...
...Anglo-U.S. strategists have planned their winter airlift on the basis of a 4,000-ton daily average. On a minimum basis, 1,400 tons of food and 2,000 tons of coal will sustain West Berlin. The coal will heat hospitals, prisons, courts, schools, and welfare establishments. If the 4,000-ton average is maintained, the extra 600 tons will consist of medical and welfare supplies, newsprint, and extra coal (for a few essential industries and emergency heat in private dwellings). Berliners will be colder than last winter and possibly colder than the winter before...
Throngs of women and children brought gifts-carved jade, Meissen chinaware, jeweled watches-to their heroes, the Anglo-U.S. airmen. Some 1,300 German laborers, of whom 75% were women, started work on a new airport in the city's French sector (see cut). Said Christian Democrat Leader Jakob Kaiser: "Fifty days of blockade have proved that what was supposed to force Berlin to surrender to a foreign will has been transformed into democracy's greatest victory in Germany since...