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Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
Even a conservative can discover reasonable grounds for retaining the hammer and sickle at the head of one column on the ballot. Distrust of Communisnr springs from fear of its doctrines of violent revolution and of abolishing private property. Prevent them from voting, and all means of estimating the Communists true strength are lost. Discontent, moreover, is the source of rebellion, and suppression of the suffrage constitutes the single most effective method of breeding discontent in a democracy. So long as their candidates' names appear on the ballot, American Communists cannot charge that their rights are denied...
Later Pietro overcame his fear of death. Loss of that fear gave him an appetite for living which made any wealth beyond that of bare life ridiculous. It also gave him a complete distrust of theory and oratory. "Must I force myself to shout and sing," he asked, "if I have only voice enough for ordinary conversation? A seed of wheat beneath the snow is a poor thing; we might tax it with not having the value of a bomb or a pearl...
...overoptimistically promised and now "scandalously overestimated," was no antidote. From everyone Americans and Britons met throughout Russia came the question: "Kogda zhe budet vtory front?" In Russian this meant: "When will there be a second front?" It also meant that 170,000,000 Russian people, bred to nationalism and distrust of the rest of the world, might lose the small capital of good will being built up by allies joined in a common cause...
...strategy was plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...