Word: delusionals
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Windup. Disappointed Laborites cried "shame" at this "concession" to U.S. views. But Sir Winston, undaunted, carried the fight to them. He chided the neutralists: "It is a delusion to suppose that a declaration of our neutrality would make us immune to danger from Russia." "
Stevenson called again for understanding of a foreign people, suggesting that our alliance with the colonial powers of the West have made the East suspect our professed devotion to freedom as hypocritical. He called on America to "avoid the sins of self-righteousness and self-delusion in Asia. Our power...
The Communist masters of China are having trouble with the peasants. Those who must farm the land to feed the world's most populous country do not seem to have got the idea at all. In fact, most of them suffer from "spontaneous tendencies toward capitalism." Others, unable to...
The defeat's full impact landed on the world's doorstep with the morning newspapers. Editorial writers, who had been championing Stevens all week, denounced him. Cried the Richmond News Leader: "Mr. Stevens has . . . contributed to the delusion that McCarthy bestrides this nation like some Colossus, while petty...
Eric Fletcher, a back-bench Laborite, brought up the talk of Churchill's resignation, "on which we shall no doubt now be receiving some authoritative enlightenment." Snorted Churchill loudly: "Delusion." Observed Fletcher: "We shall all know how to interpret that oracular interjection."