Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers blinked their eyes and looked again; there, in Lord Beaverbrook's arch-Tory London Evening Standard, in a column-long leader, was a eulogy of white-topped "Mr. A. J. Cummings . . . the distinguished columnist of the Liberal Party who writes in the News Chronicle. He is a warrior in defense of liberty, a crusader in the cause of justice, freedom and righteousness...
Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
Lola had given me the names of three prisoners with whom to talk, and a guard brought them to me. One, a 24-year-old student leader, had been in jail since February 1947, because of activities against the Morinigo government before it was overthrown. The other two, both of them young teachers, had been arrested after handing out anti-Morinigo leaflets and painting propaganda slogans on Asunción walls. They have never stood trial, have never been told how long their jail terms will...
...Long Road. Even to this starting point toward reunion, the road had been long and rocky. Dr. John R. Mott, at 83 the only surviving leader of the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 - the first great ecumenical meeting - addressed the opening service in the Nieuwe Kerk, which was spruced up for Princess Juliana's investiture as Queen of The Netherlands on Sept. 6. He movingly recalled "the preparatory stages" at Jerusalem, Madras, Stockholm, Lausanne, Oxford, Edinburgh and Utrecht "which have brought us to this hour...