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Last week "Former Naval Person" Winston Churchill spat angry words against a high wind. The Labor government, said he, "has forced the British people to live in a fool's purgatory upon the generous grants of free enterprise, capitalist America . . . If we are to earn our daily bread in the world, it can only be through the strongest possible individual effort and ingenuity arising from conditions of freedom and fair play...
...Socialist Britain was a "fool's purgatory," millions of Britons were the fools. They liked it-at least they liked it better than what they thought the Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British...
...where, White says, "everyone was a genius"-he had learned that he was not one. Bowing his viola in the St. Louis Symphony for six years, then in Hollywood's radio and recording studios, he had become convinced that the top U.S. conservatories were "only helping students to fool themselves...
When hotelmen warned him that he could not make money on such a hotel in these days of high operating costs and falling revenues, McCarthy snapped: "I went into the oil business in 1933 when everybody said I was a damn fool. Now they're saying it again about my hotel...
...Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...