Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halifax, a staunch Conservative who very nearly became Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill.* Halifax thought that if the government had handled itself better before the Suez invasion, "we might have avoided the discredit of a course of action which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt he was-a convinced believer in that action, I should have thought that the right time for him to resign was when those gears were put into reverse...
...autobiography published in England last week, Lord Halifax recalls a grim May afternoon when he met with Churchill and Neville Chamberlain to decide who should replace the discredited Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Halifax, Chamberlain's choice, opened the discussion by declaring that as a peer, forbidden to enter the House of Commons, he could not hope to run the government effectively. Dryly he records that Chamberlain "reluctantly and Churchill, with evidently much less reluctance, finished by accepting my view...
...many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas of Tibet and among U.S. revivalists, including those who induce frenzies by the handling of venomous snakes...
...into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took her to a welfare home to await a hearing. Lord John Clarke MacDermott, Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice, declaring her a ward of the court, ordered that she attend only regular Presbyterian Church services, address no public meetings. As for her Catholic parents, they would have to accept their Protestant daughter in what MacDermott called his "experiment in toleration...
Died. George Gilbert Aime Murray, 91, spare, brilliant Greek scholar and Oxford don (from 1908), eminent translator of Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristophanes. After the shock of losing many friends and students in World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible...