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...dramatic proposal, the pamphlet had originally been intended to clarify the policy of the Labor Party, which had been divided on the issue of Western European federation. By the time the drafting committee got through with it, the small group favoring federation had been silenced. The finished document bore the arrogant, doctrinaire mark of its chief author, Minister of Town & Country Planning Hugh Dalton, whose bumbling indiscretions had gotten him and his government into trouble before...
Worthy though Lie's program looked-at least at first glance-it bore little resemblance to the facts of international life in 1950. Russia had held up action on nearly all the ten points long before the China dispute arose. There was no sign that Moscow had changed its mind...
John was 29 and well set up in the law before he ventured to take unto himself a wife, Abigail Smith, the daughter of a Weymouth preacher. She was a lively girl of great charm and moral force who bore John's testy temper and four children (including a future President, John Quincy) with all wifely aplomb...
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June...
...Eleanor bore Henry a line of five sons and three daughters. A year after her second marriage, Henry's chief rival for the throne of England, Eustace of Blois, strangled on a dish of eels, and shortly after the Duke of Normandy added Britain to his fiefs. In the first years of their reign, Eleanor was Henry II's full partner in the building of empire. She made long progresses with him through their possessions, sometimes levied justice and taxes when he was away, and more than all, reformed the manners of Western Europe to woman...