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...exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative Council, gruffly suggested: "Hang the Mikuyu in batches of 25 in public, and send witnesses of the executions back to the Kikuyu reserves to spread the joyful news...
...improve his parliamentary technique, he traveled everywhere with a phonograph on which he played records of the speeches of Britain's Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, was soon throwing such high-caliber cliches at the Opposition as "Sword of Damocles" and "Bed of Procrustes." On one such occasion the Speaker of the House, a sensitive man, collapsed, crying with his dying breath: "Dreadful, dreadful...
...Gilbert & Sullivan. But, Tory or no Tory, Biographer Pearson seems to see eye-to-eye with Dizzy on a great many matters of principle. He is strongly opposed, for one thing, to compulsory education beyond the three R's. For another, he is able to write of William Ewart Gladstone as venomously as if that formidable old gentleman were still active in politics. In short, if Pearson is not quite the best man to write a cool, critical study of Dizzy, he is admirably equipped to write a sympathetic, and enthusiastic...
Painted in lace jabots, powdered wigs and colorful velvet jackets, the 52 on display at the Tate looked boyishly innocent, boyishly arrogant. Their number included four future First Lords of the Treasury, and 21 future earls and dukes. One of history's most famed old Etonians, William Ewart Gladstone, was not present; he was not enough of a standout at Eton. Among those who were...
Britain's once famed and powerful Liberal Party, which produced such parliamentary lions as William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Asquith and David Lloyd George, has not played a decisive role in British politics since 1924. Nevertheless, a recent Gallup poll showed that 38% of the British electorate, weary of Clement Attlee's Socialism, distrustful of Winston Churchill's Conservatism, said that they would vote Liberal if they thought the party had a chance of winning. Last week both Socialists and Tories were ardently wooing the Liberals, and some observers thought that the third party's role might...