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Britain's reaction to a wave of anti-British criticism in the U.S. was both sharp and serious last week. Britons have been slow to anger at what they consider misinterpretation of Empire policy, but this time the lid...
Thus the glee with which the furious little fringe of isolationists seized on the Senatorial remarks as anti-Allied was as misplaced as was the Administration's feeble efforts to keep the lid on their criticisms, or as beside the point as the shock felt in London...
...study of what happened when the lid came off the coffee pot may be prophetic of what will happen when the lid comes off everything. The Wall Street Journal found...
...veteran of much bloodshed. In World War I he fought in France beside American troops. In World War II he achieved a major triumph by crushing the Wehrmacht's desperate attempt to relieve the army trapped at Stalingrad. Today his is the crucial job of clamping the lid on the Germans caught in the southern rattrap. The Red Army regards him as a subtle and original tactician, second only to Rokossovsky as a daring and two-fisted field commander...
Against Communism. The Government applied more terror, more arrest and executions, to hold the lid down. Premier Badoglio sought to split the five popular-front parties by weaning the liberal Actionists from the Socialists and Communists. The underground countered with mass "solidarity" demonstrations at the funerals of air-raid victims...