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...brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group of men to refuse to support their leader. Actually it is one of the crudest decisions that a politician must make. ... It is against the enthusiasms and affection which come to men who have played on the same team. . . ." He added proudly: "I . . . voted for my leader [Chamberlain...
Last week the crudest episode in the war against civilians had a happy sequel. A lumbering Sunderland flying boat on convoy duty sighted a lifeboat 600 miles off the Irish coast. Aboard were 46 survivors of the City of Benares, in the sudden sinking of which fortnight ago 83 children and 210 adults were thought lost. The 20-ton flying boat, running short of fuel, signaled her relief plane, which in turn signaled a warship...
...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
Just about the world's crudest propaganda sheet is the monthly Bezbozhnik ("The Godless"), of Russia's League of the Militant Godless. While a pretense of religious freedom is maintained in Russia, the League carries on anti-religious activity probably abetted by the Secret Police and Bezbozhnik serves as a pep sheet for Atheists. Last week it printed an account of what has been happening to priests and their flocks in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland...
...because he is probably the most despisable man in the world, nor the crudest, nor the most ruthless . . . but simply because ... he has awakened in the world's democracies the knowledge that they can no longer rest on their laurels...