Word: driberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that's the matter with Tom Driberg and the rest of the British soreheads is that they are smarting sharply under the consequences of their own unrealistic policies . . . Of course, it is an immoral thing to urge the reception of disreputable Red China into the U.N., and the British are at war with their own conscience. Most of all, there is the recent German election. It shows that Communism in Germany is nil, in contrast with the heavy vote in France and Italy. It shows that our most understandable ally in the world is West Germany, and that Britain...
...Driberg is entitled to his views, but I wonder if he really believes that death at the hands of the Nazis is different from death, or slow torture, in some Siberian labor camp. I wonder if (and when) Russia and Red China begin to give real competition to Britain in the tooling, steel and textile market, will Mr. Driberg all of a sudden discover that Communism is also "anti-Christian...
...Driberg's pettifogging lacks even a professional air. Because many people can find many diverse factors to blame in our present global mess, he assumes that none of these has any significance. And his refusal to compare Russian cruelty with the Nazis' "calculated" horror is a kind of ghastly hairsplitting...
...time'' and other evidences of the results of British and European shortsightedness, it seemed hardly consistent to accept the views of some "enlightened Americans" that, in our present difficulties, the more experienced British public opinion should prevail over our own. The opinions expressed by Mr. Driberg go far to convince me that the British mind has not materially improved its clarity since the days of Munich...
...That "Communism is a Christian heresy, but Naziism was anti-Christian paganism" is "oversimplification" of itself. Communism, ideologically, is not simply an attempt to weaken Christianity, but to destroy all religions and Communism is even more pagan than Naziism ... If such muddleheaded thinking as Mr. Driberg's is typical of the British Labor Party, then thank the Lord for Sir Winston...