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For "weeks," said Prime Minister Churchill to the House of Commons, he and Foreign Secretary Eden had "labored with the Polish Government in London" to establish a "friendly working agreement" between the Russians and the Poles. It had been labor lost. Winston Churchill made his Government's position plain...
These alarums & excursions were ironic wormwood to Elder Statesman Baruch, whose political philosophy is a good deal closer to Old School Democrat George's than to Franklin Roosevelt's. Throughout his report Baruch had repeatedly cautioned the U.S. against divisive pressure-group politics. He had labored valiantly to...
Sixty thousand men & women labored through a cold winter's day in Britain last week. Seven thousand R.A.F. men listened to briefings. Then from airdromes all over England, 1,000 monster Lan-casters and Halifaxes sped for Berlin in their first big mission in 15 days.
To the trained ear of the British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a...
Spawning Inventions. All of the Coopers and Hewitts were inventors. They spawned ideas like salmon. Each had his pet idea, like a spoiled child, which he labored over more & more as it failed to work out, and which he grew more & more fond of as the other successful ideas raced...