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...Patterson's editorials are always bluntly to the point. But the News's 2,000,000 readers were startled by a Patterson editorial blunter than usual: "Congressman Holland: You are a liar. Make what you like of that...
...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...
...short-wave listener in Chungking heard the explanation put in blunter terms by BBC's announcer: "You see," he explained, "the man in the street has no time to think of the Japanese war of aggression against China these days." Sadly realizing that being abandoned and forgotten by sorely-pressed Britons makes China's future no less dependent on Britain's, the short-wave listeners crouched around their speakers, fearing that awful thing which was so exclusively on the mind of the men in London's streets...
...impatient Loyal Opposition in Parliament demanded action. Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...
Though the London Times is the mouthpiece of the British Government as a whole, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has a still more personal mouthpiece in the Yorkshire Post, in which his wife's family has interests. Very much blunter was the Yorkshire Post editorial of the same date: "Could any impertinence be more naive? Could any illustrate better THE SEEMINGLY persistent incapacity of the German to realize the other fellow's point of view? Reverse the positions-suppose Eden and Chamberlain were to come out on the platform of an official body designed to organize every Englishman living...