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Virulent, cajoling, sarcastic, he went at the Prime Minister with a barbed compliment ("I freely admit that [he] is the most articulate Englishman that has ever lived . . . How did it come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...
...bank. The idea was to show what nonsense banks and checks are. And also, how difficult it is to make any law that cannot be turned to nonsense. The English banker cashed the check and, when it returned through the clearing office, the brandy was intact. The Englishman did not see the point of such a joke, but he understood his duty...
Prewar Moscow moviegoers loved to watch Tarzan hurtling from bough to bough, keening his apelike jungle call. Now, a Soviet film introduction makes it plain, Tarzan may safely be admired again. After all, says the preface, though he was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was "uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization...
...richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25). Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18). The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...