Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upholding the Council's negative position on the resolution will be J. Philip Bahn '49 and Detlev F. Vagts '49, while two Socialist Workers will defend the affirmative side of the argument...
Amiable Arthur Greenwood, Labor's deputy leader, rose to defend the guillotine as "a new experiment resting on the authority of this House." Pink-cheeked Tory Quintin Hogg, looking like a bad-tempered baby, cried out: "Call it the Reichstag and be done with it." Greenwood thrust back: "I think all the potential Führers are on the other side...
...Sneer of Shame." Churchill was in his best apocalyptic form: "It is with deep grief that I watch the clattering down of the British Empire, with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. . . . Many have defended Britain against her foes. None can defend her against herself. We must face the evils that are coming upon us and that we are powerless to avert. We must not . . . exclude any expedient that may help to mitigate the ruin and disaster that will follow the disappearance of Britain from the East. But at least...
...does get a share, but its leaders are good hands at keeping a lion's share for themselves. And the property owners do what they can to defend themselves...
...foreign policy. What can anyone do? They can fight on this issue not with the hope of winning any but minor concessions, but with the hope of clearing up the confusion, of driving home to the people and the Administration and Congress, the point that democracy's enemies cannot defend democracy. Perhaps some time before it is too late--1948 perhaps--the tide can be turned. Allen H. Barton...