In December 1948, a Washington Radio Station telephoned various ambassadors in the capital asking what they would like for Christmas. The unedited replies were recorded and broadcast in a special programme the following week. ’Peace throughout the world’, proclaimed the French Ambassador. ’Freedom for all people enslaved by imperialism’, demanded the Russian Ambassador. ’Well, its very kind of you to ask’, came the polite voice of Sir Oliver Shewell, the British Ambassador. ’I’d quite like a box of crystallised fruit.’
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