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...Disastrous" President. Scarcely a fortnight before, Cassandra had jolted his readers with an even more radical column. For years Cassandra has led Britain's anti-American chorus, hammered the U.S. for its "climate of fear," compared congressional investigations to "Communist trials," called President Eisenhower one of the most "disastrous" U.S. Presidents...
Last month Cassandra publicly confessed that he has changed his mind. He made his confession while giving advice to left-wing Laborite M.P. Aneurin Bevan, who, like Attlee, had also just returned from the Far East. Cassandra urged Bevan to make a trip to the U.S. Wrote Cassandra : "When you have made up your mind to dislike people, it is disturbing when you discover that they are very likable persons indeed. And by far the great majority of Americans are friendly and generous to a degree that you do not always find in these islands. Going around disapproving of Americans...
Sticky End. Irish-born (County Derry) Bill Connor has been Cassandra ever since he started in newspapering on the Mirror in 1935. The son of a civil servant, Cassandra did a variety of odd jobs until Mirror editors, intrigued by his arrogant, self-assured, insulting ways, gave him a job as a columnist. Cassandra ("One of those titles cooked up in a pub") was an overnight success. He also got the paper into very hot water, which is just where the saucy, sensational Mirror likes...
During World War II Cassandra's attacks on the government were so savage that the Cabinet came close to suppressing the paper. After Dunkirk Cassandra bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky...
Interview with McCarthy. At war's end he began his first column: "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted." Like many another British journalist, Cassandra puts himself in the middle of every story, to the virtual exclusion of anyone he is writing about. Last year, in a series on Senator Joe McCarthy, Cassandra seldom let even him get in a word as he wrote: "I told him I detested everything he stood for. I opposed what he was doing, and that on further acquaintance I felt almost certain that I would hate his guts. Furthermore, what...