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...schooled. Argumentative Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan* - told the House tartly: "There is a great body of opinion, which isn't sufficiently articulate, that public schools should be allowed to die a natural death. Some would like them to die a little more violently." Crumped acid Labor M.P. Charles Ammon: "While it is said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it can be answered now that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the [State] schools of England...
...Baldwin put Rearmament to the test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those who should hold the confidence of the country are using that confidence to bring on preparations for war-a war which was the very thing they pledged themselves against...
...usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding...
...sons: the name of their son-in-law, Tutankhamun, an effete dilettante famed for the extravagant manner of his burial, is known to every bright U. S. schoolchild. More vital is the significance of Ikhnaton for he was the first recorded monotheist. In a regal frenzy he repudiated Ammon. deity of wealth and power, consecrated himself solely to Aton. the blinding disc of the sun. His was a short-lived but intense faith. Among its effects was the temporary liberation of Egyptian art from its stilted conventions. The bust of Nefertiti, for example, has naturalistically painted eyes, apparently follows...
...Ammon, Labor...