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...progress which the Prime Minister gave as his political philosophy eighteen months ago. There was a hope at that time that the injection of Mr. Churchill's robust practical sense would turn the Conservative Party away from the Brummagem neo-feudalism of its recent years to the Disraelian tradition of constructive popular and progressive realism, and make it a worthy member of a national partnership. But it is not Mr. Churchill that has captured the Conservative machine; it would appear to be the Conservative machine that has captured Mr. Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mountain of Anger | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...long such tirades might have continued had not Rufus Daniel Isaacs been in the House is conjectural. This Jew of Jews, this Disraelian paragon of Empire, the great Marquess of Reading, was Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21), be fore he became High Commissioner and Special Envoy to borrow wartime millions in the U. S. through J. P. Morgan ;; Co. Gently interposing last week, Rufus Daniel Isaacs proposed to rephrase the offending clause, "so that it should not operate to the prejudice of anybody now a Lord Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lord High Scrap | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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