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...Soviet press and radio, taking its cue from Molotov, blamed "the Anglo-Saxon bloc" for the deadlock. A fortnight ago Ernest Bevin had told the House of Commons: "Have we the moral right to say to 21 nations . . . 'you must go on in a state of war because we four gentlemen can't agree?' Really, this is an intolerable situation." He hinted at separate peace treaties with the former enemies. This obviously would split Europe in two. Molotov in Moscow had already said: "An intolerable situation...
...FOREIGN NEWS) was willing to dig into her own depleted pockets to buy neighborly good will. Stanislaw Szwalbe, Poland's First Vice President, spelled out the Polish-Russian maneuver: "Closer cooperation with Russia becomes the more important ... in connection with the difficulties in establishing economic relations with the Anglo-Saxon countries...
Mayer had written in the Socialist organ, Le Populaire: "The nation no longer wants to read slogans which . . . recall the methods of totalitarian propaganda, f France] has nothing to gain from being exclusively aligned on Russian foreign policy. . . . We must not be cut off from the Anglo-Saxon world, nor from Russia either for that matter. . . . [But] the nation does not want Maurice Thorez to be premier...
Lent was also the season in which the church prepared pagans for baptism at Easter. To onetime heathens, Lent (from the Anglo-Saxon word for spring) came naturally: like many primitive peoples, they had observed a springtime period of self-denial to encourage germination of their new-sown crops. Church fathers readily admitted that Lent was in part an adaptation from pagan "natural religion." Then, as now, they also thought it not unfitting to remind Christians that Lenten self-denial is a good spring tonic for body as well as soul...
...Canada, despite any foreign notions about its rough & ready rowdiness, is a country deeply endowed with moral sense. Its feelings about "decency" stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...