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...short, Britain was edging close to bankruptcy. Without Marshall Plan aid, her position would soon be arithmetically hopeless. At Edinburgh last week, Cripps gave a somber summary: ". . . The whole future of our country really hangs in the balance. We have nothing to spare-no slack to take up. . . . The gold reserves of the sterling area are all that now stand between us and disaster...
This, plus comparative scores against four other mutual opponents, seems to point towards another of those familiar close games. But any kind of forecast seems rather hopeless these days-one team may win by 20 points...
Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
...hopeless cause of world peace found no sympathizers, however, with one ancient biblic title page addressed to "three great war lords." The appeal, sandwiched between the prophecy of Micah IV:3 and beginning "they shall beat their swords into plowshares" was not addressed to Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman, and Clement Attlee, but "Your Majesties George William, and Nicholas" in the year...
...town was virtually encircled, how its garrison was outnumbered, how nearby villages were raided nightly, how he was at a total loss to feed and house all the thousands of refugees who had flocked in to the relative safety of the town. He painted a hopeless picture. Finally a British correspondent with me commented that, judging by the way the prefect talked, the guerrillas were winning the battle in this area...