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Message to Dissenters. By statement and implication, Winston Churchill showed that his first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief...
...Knowing readers spotted a clue to the attack in Izvestia's inclusion of Poland among the countries supposedly dissatisfied with Vatican policy. The Russians' clear meaning was: while we are arranging a "suitable" postwar Government for Poland, will Catholics who share our distrust of clericalism please urge the Vatican not to use its enormous influence with Polish Catholics against...
...universal organization ... a few great countries will have to bear the burden of carrying out the ultimate decisions. . . . Common men & women will have scant sympathy for those politicians who, for lack of selfdiscipline, give loud utterance to their dark doubts and sinister suspicions. . . . Any attempt to disseminate distrust among those great nations, any appeal to national prejudice, to old jealousies and fears between the big countries, is a menace to every small state...
...show his distrust of the New Deal, Banker Nichols refused to make loans. He advised depositors to "bury your money in a tomato can." He fought the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. bitterly. He switched the bulk of the bank's assets to the most liquid thing he could think of- $100,000 bank notes, which he tucked into two safety deposit boxes...
...Discontented. The mines are short of miners, those at work are unhappy. Among factors contributing to the miners' discontent: 1) threatened conscription of youths from mining families for pit jobs; 2) the feeling that peace will bring no improvement in working conditions or security; 3) distrust of union leaders; 4) resentment caused by the Government decrees which returned men in the armed forces or war factories to the lower-paid jobs in the mines...