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...Laborite government, he assured his listeners, would work with Russia, China and any other country, whatever its political complexion. The U.S. might find it more difficult to work with the kind of Laborite government Nye Bevan envisions...
...some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them as a man of "dark complexion...
...September day in 1840 the proud, independent-minded people of Maine woke up to find that they had changed their political complexion overnight. The Whig candidate for governor, Edward Kent, and his party's candidates for Congress had upset the Democrats. Out of the victory came a new Whig battle cry for the national elections that were to follow two months later...
Declining Fringes. In the first postwar German elections of 1949, a total of 58 parties competed, ranging in political complexion from Communist to extreme neo-Nazi nationalists. The Communists got only 5.7% of the vote. And though sensational journalists have tried to inflate every two-pfennig crackpot into a new Hitler. German voters have steadfastly rejected neo-Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei...
This is what Historian André Castelot chose to do in Queen of France. His biography of Marie Antoinette scarcely hints at the desperate conditions that bred the French Revolution and doomed the King and Queen. Castelot is interested only in the Queen, whose flawless complexion, royal bearing and gilded extravagance made her the peerless symbol of aristocratic absolutism. For a symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real...