Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole qualification for membership: a pub customer must allow the end of his tie to be chewed...
...question whether we should allow the discussion ... to lead us into impugning the good faith of people who disagree with us and I question especially whether death in any particular line of duty-and the resultant grief at home-should be appealed to in order to advance any individual point of view...
...should fortify in every way our special and friendly connections with the United States." Bevin on Russia. Ernest Bevin had none of Churchill's solid polish; he was sometimes almost incoherent. But his meaning was as plain as a bulldog's face: "We will do nothing or allow any of our agents and diplomats to do anything to stir up hatred or to provoke or create a situation detrimental to Russia in the eastern countries. ... I am not a criminal if I want friendship with neighbors bordering on the British frontier. What am I doing wrong...
...page collaboration to Poet Shelley, who has also supplied the foreword ("Whenever I have tried to compass the thought of mankind as possessing relevance to the eternal spheres, it has become clearly evident to me that the Earthman was choiring his way. . . . The prisms of chance do not allow too great an opportunity for merit or renown; they revoke the essential, and persuade mankind into linear aspects such as the ulterior powers descry for illusive dedications."). More surprising is a second foreword by William Ewart Gladstone, disembodied but still magisterial in the beyond...
...House of Commons where the Government has only 126 seats against 119 for the combined Opposition, such an event would be extremely hazardous. The Cabinet could allow the intraparty fight to flare on the floor of the House of Commons, and risk defeat. Or it could cancel the tariff increases. Neither alternative was sweet...