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...Charles left France out on a limb by accepting the Russian draft as a basis for consideration. France's chief delegate, Adrien Thierry, was so infuriated that he wouldn't speak to the Anglo-U.S. delegates after the session...
...Sellout!" Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman had set up a $6,000,000 fund for U.S. technical advisers to EGA countries. Cripps summoned the National Production Advisory Council of Industry and proposed a joint Anglo-American Council of six labor men from Britain's Trades Union Congress, six manufacturers from the Federation of British Industries and six American industrial experts, including labor leaders. The NPACI agreed...
...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
...restless foot back in his nimble mouth. Opening a maternity hospital at Holyhead, he said that men of Celtic fire were needed to bring about great reforms like the new health service. That was why, he explained, Welshmen were put in charge instead of "the bovine and phlegmatic Anglo-Saxons." How Bevan's Labor associates, including Anglo-Saxons Attlee, Morrison and Bevin, liked that one was not revealed. Unphlegmatic Anglo-Saxon Winston Churchill, however, put his head down and charged. Said he: "We speak of the Minister of Health-but ought we not rather to say the Minister...
...Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed the bishops last week in words that many an Anglican will remember: "Our communion is no longer English or British or Anglo-Saxon . . . But it is still called the Anglican, the English Communion; and though the word is no longer altogether appropriate for this diverse family of autonomous churches, yet it bears witness to a truth of the past and to a truth of the present . . . Every one of the churches here represented traces its ancestry back to the church of these islands, and so to Canterbury and to St. Augustine ... To that tradition of Christian...