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...nuclear attack to evacuate 12 million persons, shouts of "Where to?" cannoned all over the Labor side of the House. "Areas of least concentration," replied Monckton lamely. Former War Secretary John Strachey dryly reminded him that his own ministry's pamphlet showed that "a bomb dropped on Liverpool would be lethal as far as the east coast...
...Ulysses crew are wooden, they are admiralty specification teak. Author MacLean, a schoolteacher who served five years in the Royal Navy, has brought to his first novel an ear as sharp as sonar. The Liverpool stokers blaspheme authentically, and about the story lies the fascination of precise technical information and service jargon-the grim grammar of war. After 20 months of the terrible Murmansk run, Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia...
...Right Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Lord Bishop of Durham, was not an unexpected choice. His rise from curate of a Liverpool parish church in 1928 to bishop in 1952 was considered a rapid one; at 51 he is reputed to be one of the church's best public speakers, is known as a scholarly High-churchman with several books on theology to his credit. A Cambridge man, and son of a Cambridge don (a Congregationalist preacher whom he eventually confirmed in the Church of England), Ramsey has long been an outspoken opponent of divorce, was once looked upon...
Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...
Political Career: First elected to Parliament in 1945 from home constituency of the Wirral, near Liverpool, he won reputation as spirited young backbencher, specialized in economic affairs, was picked by Rab Butler as his chief assistant in formulating program which returned Tories to power in 1951. After election, Eden made him his righthand man in Foreign Office as Minister of State. For three years he headed British delegation to U.N. A great believer in private conversations and searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise...