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...unpleasant duty to perform. On the first day of a new parliamentary session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping old labels (Higher Taxes, Lower Consumption) as those prescribed by Old Austerity himself...
...like a slave market,' s Radcliffe girl confided to me once," Back relates. "'I feel as if everyone is counting my teeth and measuring my bust...
...young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years...
...main plaza, the band followed the national anthem with a new Hymn to Fleming. Then Lady Fleming unveiled a bust of the man Spaniards call El Buen Sabio (The Good Wizard...
That same day, 400 miles away, the 200 village families of Navajas near Valencia dedicated a plaque reading: "To Fleming as a sign of gratitude." By week's end Barcelona, Spain's most bustling city (pop. 1,087,099) unveiled a marble bust, and the Gijón scene was repeated. Madrid soon will have its monument; Manzanares already has its Calle Fleming...