Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate became acrimonious and mischievous. To hear the Bevanites tell it, it was the U.S., not Communist China, that menaced the peace. In the heat of the Laborite assault on Churchill's foreign policy, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was jolted out of his usual debonair mastery of the House, even lost his temper and apologized for it. Churchill maneuvered desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered...
Nevertheless, the fact remained that the Pentagon's "period of maximum" danger, during which the U.S. will neither be fully equipped to wage aerial atomic war on the enemy or defend the country against aerial atomic assault, is being lengthened. The fact also remained that air power, on which the bulk of U.S. military strength is being concentrated, is having its wings clipped...
...From his Santa Ana, Calif, headquarters, old "R.C." himself rode into the valley on a bus to reshape the papers according to Hoiles. He threw out Drew Pearson's column, replaced him with Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky, and his own column. His favorite campaign: a bitter, continuous assault on public schools on the ground that free, tax-supported education violates the Ten Commandments. Taxing those who do not use public schools, he says, is stealing...
...without military controversy beforehand. New Zealand's General Bernard Freyberg, commanding the assault troops, insisted on the bombing. His superior, U.S. General Mark Clark, resisted for a while, then reluctantly referred the matter to the theater commander, British General Sir Harold Alexander, who gave the go-ahead. Winston Churchill's later verdict: "The result was not good. The Germans now had every excuse for making whatever use they could of the rubble of the ruins, and this gave them even better opportunities for defense than when the building was intact...
...Voices. W. N. Roughead's anthology gives readers a glimpse of Belloc in his multifarious prime. Only a glimpse, because much of Belloc's most influential, characteristic work (e.g., his vehemently "Catholic" histories of France and England; his major assault on industrial society, The Servile State) could hardly be squeezed in. But present in all its glory is Belloc's great range of tone-a diversity of poetic styles that travel all the way from nimble, sarcastic diatribes against the faults of "us poor hobbling, polyktonous and betempted wretches of men" to what his friend Baring described...