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...extraordinary fact about English democracy-namely, that at almost any given time some English leader turns out to be a perfect symbol of his people. At the time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...
This short, slim book of some 140 pages caused an uproar in England. It indicted the former members of the Chamberlain Government, several of whom have remained in the Churchill Government, largely by stating their records, and suggested that the British Isles would be a little more buoyant if these men were dropped overboard. When certain British booksellers refused to handle distribution of Guilty Men in the usual way, news dealers took it over, sold eager Britons 50,000 copies of the book in three weeks. Last week it appeared...
...years ago British Newsman George Eric Rowe Gedye had to leave his New York Times headquarters in Vienna when the Gestapo kicked him out of Austria. The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...only one sign of the social revolution that is proceeding apace in Great Britain. It is a revolution in that it is being carried out without benefit of elections, yet it undoubtedly follows the will of the people. It began on May 10 when Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister...
...things have maintained the Conservatives in nominal power so far: 1) the need of unity in the face of Hitler's threat; 2) the Conservatives' overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. But since the illness of Conservative Leader Neville Chamberlain, another man has gradually usurped the actual leadership of the Party. He stays in the background and lets others drive, but he picks and orders the routes. That man is William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "Nobody would have believed it. It's as likely they'd have predicted I'd be Archbishop...