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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sons under, on and over the sea, a daughter spending nine months a year in college and the summer months in the yards, my wife and I now in the yards for three years, I feel qualified to express my opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...books and countless pamphlets, chiefly on the necessity of leftism, was alleged to have made at a Labor Party rally in Newark, Nottinghamshire. To a question from the crowd, Laski was reported (by the Nottingham Guardian, and later by Lord Beaverbrook's cockalorum conservative London Daily Express) to have replied: "If we cannot get the reforms we desire, we shall not hesitate to use violence, even if it means revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: View Halloo | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Furiously. Laski served libel writs on the Nottingham Guardian and the London Daily Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: View Halloo | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Socialism v. the Crown. Meanwhile, the Daily Express dug up a non-actionable Laski quote-this time on the Crown. In The Labor Party and the Constitution, Professor Laski wrote: "No one can doubt that the existence of the monarchy makes the realization of socialism a peculiarly difficult adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: View Halloo | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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