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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannot adequately express gratitude which I feel as a citizen for superb and immensely courageous McCarthy report...
...what of Bevan? As of now, Attlee securely holds the party's reins. But many observers, including Lord Beaverbrook's stoutly Tory Daily Express, saw in 53-year-old Nye Bevan the real victor in this election. Despite his popularity in his own constituency, his antics had undoubtedly scared many Liberals into voting Tory. "He can claim," said the Daily Express, "to have brought the Tories to office on terms they may well find embarrassing and unprofitable. In opposition, his star will rise still higher...
...publisher to subsidize him for three years. Greene's next two novels (The Name of Action, Rumour at Nightfall) must have made his publishers think twice about their investment. Both were murkily intense, heavily plotted melodramas that Greene has since tried hard to forget. Orient Express (1932) made the publishers feel better. A tightly written suspense story, it made Greene a popular writer. Hollywood turned it into a movie...
...could deny the Legion's right, under democracy, to express an opinion; but also, under democracy, there must be a limit to the degree of finality a minority opinion should imply. We would like to suggest that the line be drawn thus: the activities of a minority pressure group become intolerable when, and only when, that group possesses the power to enforce its will invariably and without dispute...
Suzanna Hoeber IG spoke in another panel discussion on academic freedom. She and three other students listed instances where student and faculty rights were abused and urged a return to a situation where these groups were not afraid to express their views...