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From the first, Lew Douglas got along with everyone, from Communist Arthur Horner to Imperialist Winston Churchill, from the King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...
...Shinwell, the bungling Fuel & Power Minister who last year gambled on a "green winter" and spectacularly lost. Since then most Britons have had less than no use for "Manny" Shinwell, but the Communists and the coal miners still love him. The Communist secretary of the Mineworkers' Union, Arthur Horner, tried to prevent his removal. Said "li'l Arthur," darkly: "I hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when he saw that Attlee's hand was not to be stayed, Horner...
...Will Horner try to do to Britain what he did to Maerdy? Some Britons would not put it past him. Horner himself has said: "If there were a possibility of war with Russia, the coal fields would stop...
Shinwell said that if these demands were granted now Britain's whole economic machine might be thrown out of gear. But Shinwell knew that he had to stay on good terms with Horner if any coal at all is to be mined. So Shinwell helplessly held out his hands, shrugged and said: "I come in a mood of appeasement...
...always, old Jim Horner, in his house at Merthyr, is sticking up for his son. Last week, putting his worn velvet slippers carefully on the blacklead fender before the fireplace, he declared stoutly: "They've had our Arthur in prison four times-but he never did do anything wrong...