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...honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been informed that some nice, kindly old lady did make that remark...
...ships." Though without aircraft carriers, Russia has a powerful land-based naval air force "which could be used either for bombing or torpedo attacks or for minelaying." The most alarming figure was Russia's submarine force, which should not have come as a surprise to any well-informed Briton. Nonetheless, talk of 350 Russian subs recalls to Britons Admiral Doenitz's boast that with 300 U-boats he could have bottled up the British Isles...
...Laski, then an instructor in government at Harvard, assured the Great Dissenter that "you teach our generation how we may hope to live," pressed a couple of books on him, and begged permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced what is perhaps the longest and most scintillating correspondence of the 20th century...
Edgar Sanders, 48, tall, bespectacled Briton who was a representative of International Telephone & Telegraph in Budapest, was tried with Robert Vogeler of the U.S. in the strange Budapest "spy case" of 1950, has since served three years of a 13-year prison sentence. The U.S. ransomed Vogeler in 1951, the British had nothing satisfactory to offer for Sanders...
...visiting Briton, resident for the past eight months in the U.S., I am constantly amazed at the almost daily abuse and vilification of Britain and all things British, so evident in both the American press and American manners. Your magazine's counter-criticism of the British press [TIME, Feb. 2] therefore strikes me at best as being a chronic case of the pot calling the kettle black...