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Even in the freespoken atmosphere of Hyde Park such things are seldom said of a reigning monarch. Appearing last week in a respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Her Majesty's Tweedy Enclave | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Alvan Tufts Fuller, freespoken Governor of Massachusetts, has a freespoken secretary, one Herman A. MacDonald. Referring publicly to a lately deposed Massachusetts official, Secretary MacDonald called the official "nutty" and said that he was being chased by squirrels. He also called him a "Mexican General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: MEXICAN GENERAL | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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