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...military commander in the area, General Ambrose E. Burnside, issued a general order: "The habit of declaring sympathy for the enemy will no longer be tolerated. It must be distinctly understood that treason, expressed or implied, will not be tolerated in this department." Ohio's Congressman Clement Vallandigham remained defiant. In a speech addressed to "King Lincoln," he cried: "Defeat, debt, taxation, sepulchers: these are your trophies! In vain the people gave you treasure and the soldier yielded up his life. The war for the Union is a most bloody and costly failure. What has been our success...
...seat landslide. The results of two by-elections supported that statement. In the university town of Cambridge, the Tories recaptured a swing seat from Labor with a massive majority. In the London working-class district of Walthamstow West, once the constituency of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the Tory candidate won in a narrow upset. It was the first time that Labor had lost there since...
...World War I émigré from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London...
...exile, has effeminate hands, lacking muscle and arteries in them, but already in 1941 is heard yelling "France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...
Tony Parker, Jim Harper, and John Clement will be among the 12 to race in the NEISA Singlehanded Championship May 21. Their boats reached incredible speeds in the 35-knot wind Sunday and often came close to capsizing. John Bullard and Win Fowler also raced, but failed to qualify...