Word: brit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles explained, in effect, that by taking a position of moderation the U.S. was restraining "some people who counseled immediate forcible action," i.e., the Brit ish and the French. On Dulles' urging, the U.S., Britain and France had agreed instead to convene a 24-nation conference of nations principally affected by the canal seizure (including Russia and Egypt, excluding Israel) to negotiate what he carefully termed "an adequate and dependable international administration of the canal on terms which would respect, and generously respect, all the legitimate rights of Egypt." But what if Nasser chose not to heed the moral...
...conscience of his generation," British Critic V. S. Pritchett called Brit ish Novelist George Orwell (who died in 1950). Orwell was a maverick radical who attacked his old friends of the left with as much ferocity as new, would-be friends of the right. In the U.S., he is best known for Animal Farm, the best anti-Communist satire yet written, and that nightmare about Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Keep the Aspidistra Flying-which appeared in England in 1936 but has never before been published in the U.S., is a sharply satirical attack on the left-wing intellectuals...
...European governments to channel U.S. aid to Europe. Mindful of objections to Euratom on the grounds that it covers too few countries and carries supranationalism too far, the O.E.E.C. committee proposed cooperation short of full partnership among the 17 O.E.E.C. nations. To include countries such as Brit ain, which is skittish about too deep involvement in continental federation, O.E.E.C. would settle for "joint undertakings" among different combinations of countries to spread their investment risks and to give Europe a more balanced atomic industry than any one nation could build alone. "Full cooperation," said the O.E.E.C. committee would "wreck the very...
...calm profusion, Britons went to the polls. The result was a sharp and decisive victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...
...press and Parliament, a growing concern was heard last week over what Brit ain is getting for its huge arms expenditures ($4.6 billion a year, more than 35% of the budget). Two years ago, before the U.S. got its new look, the British decided to concentrate on the Royal Air Force's atom bombers and supersonic fighters. The Royal Navy is no longer able to keep up with the Joneses, or even the Ivanovs. The British army is now held down to 450,000 men. Yet after these two years of "superpriority," most R.A.F. squadrons are flying obsolescent aircraft...