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...ardent spokesmen for the Democratic and Republican Parties, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and former Senator John Foster Dulles, locked horns over three crucial issues of the "Welfare State" last night: balancing the national budget, federal government vs. states rights, and material security vs. individual freedom and individual social responsibility...
Then Attlee dwelt sarcastically on Churchill's alternate use of scorn and entreaty to win the nine-seat Liberal bloc to the Tory side. "He has been a very ardent lover of this elderly spinster, the Liberal Party," he said, and the House tittered. Lady Megan Lloyd George, 47-year-old Liberal spinster, blushed and laughed with embarrassment. Other M.P.s, with mock gallantry, cried: "Withdraw!" But Attlee went right on. "I can never make out," he said, "whether the Right Honorable Member for Woodford [Churchill's constituency] is going to play Petruchio or Romeo. He gives...
...broader front, he was an ardent internationalist. After the first World War he was one of England's most active backers of the League of Nations, headed its International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, helped scores of refugee scholars find jobs in Britain and the U.S. After the League failed, he began plugging for Anglo-American friendship and the United Nations...
...Left-wing Laborites like ardent, outspoken Aneurin Bevan (see above) complained that Labor would have done better if it had fought a more militant, more frankly leftish campaign. There is no objective reason to believe this. Both major parties drove for the middle, squeezing the Liberals between them. In the doubting mood of the British electorate, these cautious tactics were probably sound for both sides...
...Black. In those days John was Ivan Jadan, and Russian critics compared him enthusiastically to Leonid Sobinov, who 40 years ago sang tenor to Chaliapin's bass. His more ardent admirers called him "the Russian Caruso." Ivan lived in Moscow's most modern apartment house with his wife Olga and his son Alexander, enjoyed the special privilege of shopping in the luxury stores reserved for the new Soviet aristocracy. There was only one wrong note: Jadan was not a party member...