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Over the next four decades Winston Churchill got to know Harold Laski pretty well, and the better he knew him the more he disliked him-intellectually, anyway. By 1945, Harold Laski was chairman of the British Labor Party's executive committee and Winston Churchill was rumbling: "Honi soit qui Laski pense...
...when once a Countess bonny Lost her garter at the dance, Then they coined the motto "Honi Soit qui mal y pense...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...Honi soit qui mal y pense," remarked the learned jurist...
...Wall Street?changed utterly last week. Bitterness at Uncle Shylock changed to pride that John Bull had paid. Fear lest the pound fall vanished as Sterling rose slightly in terms of both the dollar and the franc. England was herself again. Blood had told. Hands across the sea. Honi soit qui mal y pense...