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Service, deliberately chose Latin America as the most important field, in a day when Pan-American posts were regarded as hopeless holes. The Department played its ancient jest on him: he was sent to Tokyo. In two years in Japan he conceived an abiding distrust and dislike of the Japanese, and in 24 years has seen no reason to change his views...
Long ago John L. Lewis learned to distrust Franklin Roosevelt; he has come as near as is possible to saying that the President's word is no good. He believes that the President made a complete bust of his domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked...
Bracken has admired and worked with Churchill politically since 1923. Since last September he has lived at 10 Downing Street and hardly left his boss's side. He shares Churchill's taste for black cigars, voluminous reading, vigorous talk. He also shared his distrust of the British appeasement group, was known to them as "The Redheaded Beast." As Minister of Information, Bracken has one inestimable advantage. He can be counted on to spring no surprises on his boss...
There Francis won the dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have made, my good Chisholm...
There is great mutual distrust between the Labor Party's middle-class politicians and official leaders, like Attlee and Greenwood, and Proletarians Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. Another irritation is the distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability...