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This week Biographer Rene Kraus (Winston Churchill; TIME, Nov. 4) described this crucial compromise in terms of the men who made it and who now rule wartime England. Some of them have been written up before. "Cato" mauled the Tories in his Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30). Patricia Strauss cleverly clawed the Laborites in Bevin and Co. (TIME, July 7). Rene Kraus's book mauls nobody, is the first book to line up for biographical inspection all of the 14 men who Kraus believes are "the men around Churchill...
...CATO...
...Cato" is the pseudonym of the author of Guilty Men (TIME, Sept. 30), a crushing arraignment of Britain's high-placed political bunglers. Some guessed that "Cato" might be Newsman Michael Foote of the Evening Standard, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper, or the Prime Minister's brash son Randolph Churchill. Actor Vic Oliver, hitherto a dark horse in the guessing, is Winston Churchill...
Starchiest comment on Mr. Chamberlain's historic role was at hand in a new little book called Guilty Men, an on-the-record, non-editorialized indictment of Chamberlain and 14 of his pre-and post-Munich peers (TIME, Sept. 30). Author was "Cato," identified by wiseacres as the Evening Standard's brilliant newsman Michael Foote...
...Says "Cato" in closing: "Let the guilty men retire, then, of their own volition, and so make an essential contribution to the victory upon which all are implacably resolved...