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American G.I.s were not the only ones to liberate Italy; the British were there too. In his second novel, Briton Alexander Baron (From the City, from the Plough) retells in fresh detail one of World War II fiction's most popular stories: what happens when invading Allied soldiers wash off the grime of battle and go out to meet the enemy's women...
Parades & Taxes. Said a Briton: "A gradual paralysis is setting in, a paralysis of commerce and spirit." There are few automobiles on the streets. Shanghai's factories are limping along at less than half their capacity production. Many shops stay open only by cutting prices below cost and unloading inventories to pay taxes and buy Communist victory bonds...
Nevertheless, some of the travelers who stepped ashore in Hong Kong last week were optimistic, after a fashion, of Communism's future in China. One Briton put it this...
...reached the capital, tired and travel-stained, the ambassador received an abrupt summons from Emperor Chia Ch'ing: appear immediately at the imperial residence. Amherst stood on his dignity and refused, pleading first fatigue, then illness. The Emperor promptly sent a court physician who reported back that the Briton was malingering...
Satanic Illusion. Meanwhile, Laski's fame as British Socialism's most suasive intellectual polemicist grew steadily. The militant gospel of class warfare that Laski preached during the 1945 campaign had put the fear of revolution in many a Briton's heart. The Nottinghamshire Newark Advertiser accused him of having advocated violence to impose Socialism on Britain. Laski sued the paper for libel, but the court was not convinced. Laski had to pay all the court costs of $52,000, including a thumping fee to the paper's lawyer, wealthy Sir Patrick Hastings...