Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...
What worries liberals is whether France, with an admittedly unrepresentative Government and with tensions from both extremes, can hold together long enough for the people to express their will...
...Official fanfare seemed to have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where...
...Britons confronted a dilemma. The war was nearing its end and they wanted an end to wartime restrictions. But wartime restrictions had a bearing on peacetime security. Britons wanted security without interference. Whether or not the People's Plan, currently being plugged by Lord Beaverbrook's Express (see PRESS), reflected their mood, they were also all for the Beveridge Plan...
...Britain's Lord Privy Seal and specialist in postwar aviation, empire-loving Lord Beaverbrook now energetically pretends that he controls his world's-biggest London Daily Express (circ. more than 3,000,000) by telepathy only. But most Britons saw the Beaver's lusty individualism in a characteristically belligerent front-page editorial which appeared last week, headed "A Policy for the People," subtitled "The Policy of the Daily Express" The policy...