Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 34 years of brilliant writing, Joe Toye has fought courageously and often alone for the establishment and survival of decency. His has been such an exceptional and well-known career of unselfish fighting for right against all conceivable odds that you damage your own reputation as a reliable authority when you state that the paper "is not renowned for its editorial vigor...
...House of Commons to make an address describing the Allies' defeat in Flanders, stating losses ascertained after the Dunkirk evacuation, but declaring the determination of the Empire to fight to victory. Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty in World War I, wrote one of the brilliant histories of that struggle, The World Crisis. His last week's speech to Parliament is a vivid and eloquent chapter in the history to be written of World War II. It follows: From the moment when the defenses at Sedan on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second...
...help sweep the dust out of the Foreign Ministry, Paul Reynaud chose a brand-new broom: Paul Baudouin, 45, second from left on TIME'S cover. After a brilliant flying career in World War I, Baudouin picked up some political point ers as private secretary to Finance Minis ters de Monzie, Caillaux, Painleve, Lou-cheur, Doumer. Having married a Ma demoiselle Angoulvant whose father was a high muck-a-muck in Indo-China, he went to work for the Bank of Indo-China, made a beeline for the East. In five years he became general manager. Recently...
...Leopold considered himself as much a Fleming as a Walloon. The nationalist Flemish writer, Herman Teirlinck, taught him the Flemish language, later became one of his closest friends and the tutor of his children. But the most significant influence on his policies was wielded by General Van Overstraeten, the brilliant, energetic, overbearing military tutor who became his chief military adviser. General Van Overstraeten did his best to dislodge pro-Ally War Minister General Henri Denis, succeeded only in getting rid of Chief-of-Staff General E. Van den Bergen. Younger Belgian Army officers called General Van Overstraeten "vice...
...thin, grave man who drinks no spirits, eats no meat. Sir Stafford is professionally a brilliant radical lawyer, privately "Red Squire" of the Cotswolds. He was the Labor Party's best mouthpiece until they expelled him in 1939 because he wanted to form a Labor Front. At that time the London Daily Express said that by his expulsion the Party was "blowing its brains out." In Russia, Sir Stafford will have done the Empire yeoman service if he can get what he hopes to get: 1) a trade agreement; 2) a military alliance-both with something more than milk...