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...vote seemed necessary because, whatever may be said against Churchill or the men around him, few Britons can imagine anyone else leading Britain through the war. Moreover, among those few are hard-shell Tories who abhor Britain's alliance with Russia and would like to restore post-war Britain as a Tory paradise. Most of Parliament was determined to give them no encouragement...
This rebuttal for Society is itself not without a trace of snobbery. The strongest curse the authors place on the magazine they abhor is that it should be read only by the cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders...
...stiff dead Italian soldiers on bleak slopes and in forested ravines from Porto Edda, where many of them had landed, northeastward to Lake Ochrida and the east-west gorges of the Shkumin River, where Italian commanders strove to make a stand against the relentless, amazing Greeks. Most Italians abhor cold as they do the sharp Greek bayonet, which Rome last week plaintively called a "barbaric and inhuman" weapon...
...will take up Dr. Butler's challenge, we don't know. The result is more likely to be that those whose conduct is in "open conflict" with the pronouncements of the University will take pains to hide the fact; while those who agree with the University's attitude, but abhor restrictions on academic freedom in the name of academic freedom, are more likely to adopt a policy of "watchful waiting" till they can see how the principle is applied in practice. We too are waiting. --The Columbia Spectator
...time is not far away when India . . . will be found in the ranks of our allies," recently boasted Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, head man of the Nazi Colonial League. What the blustering Junker overlooked was the fact that, although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer to him than freedom itself; the Indian National Congress wants...