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...know we are in a tough spot, so it's up to. him to take tough action. We would back him all right." Said a salesman: "Attlee's a good man, mind you, but we want more than that-someone with go in him." Many a Briton still agreed with the junior minister who said recently: "The sands are running out and our heads are still buried in them...
...Coming Slump. One target of Stabler's sarcasm was Major L. L. B. Angas, the ruddy, cigar-smoking Briton who made a considerable splash in 1934 with his The Coming American Boom. Since then, Major Angas has offered his prophecies, at $25 a year ($100 an hour for private consultations). Last week some of Angas' titles were typical of his gloomy views : Psychology of the Coming Slump, Short-Run Rally, Not a Bull Market - Don't Be Fooled by the Rally...
...Auden's position is beginning to be as influential as that of his friend in England who also traded countries, St. Louis-born T. S. Eliot. Both wrote militantly anti-religious poems at one period of their development, but are now Anglo-Catholics. Auden is a shock-headed Briton with chewed fingernails and schoolboy charm, whose love of language is so active that he is never quite sure he doesn't write entirely for fun. He feels and says that good U.S. writers are too inhibited to admit "the basic frivolity...
Basically, however, the average Briton's woes stem from his government's self-contradicting attempts to expand production and exports while, at the same time, saving dollars by not buying food or permitting some individual freedom of buying. Because Britain is overly sensitive of her debtor status she offers her workers intellectual incentives--promises that four or five sacrificing years will bring the long sought fruits. But the vital daily incentives, the extra meat, or new suit of clothes, are withheld...
...deep-sea divers working on the sunken British submarine Thetis were a scientific problem to famed Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. One day, early in World War II, Briton Haldane impetuously clapped on an oxygen mask and, breathing pure oxygen (to study its effects), "dived" in a pressure chamber to a depth of seven atmospheric pressures (200 feet). The experiment nearly killed the experimenter, but it proved to him that oxygen, under pressure, is a violent poison...