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...Slavery." As an undoubted authority, Stalin linked Churchill with dictatorship. The war, he rumbled, had not been fought "for the sake of exchanging the lordship of Hitler for the lordship of Churchill. He conjured up a dire future for those who (like himself) could not speak English: Churchill, with his "racial theory" that "only nations speaking the English language are . . . called upon to decide the destinies of the entire world" (a very free Russian interpretation of Churchill), was as bad as Hitler with his theories of German supremacy. ". . . Nations not speaking English," Stalin discovered, "make up an enormous majority...
Hard work, slick financing, fast talk, and a driving energy that permitted only parlor-car relaxation on his cross-country travels raised Chateaubriand from a law professorship at Recife to the most comprehensive press lordship south of San Simeon. He owns 28 newspapers, 16 radio stations, five magazines and a press service. The most spectacular of his promotions, a campaign for Brazil's amateur Aero Clubs, paid off when Aero Clubs' Sunday fliers started pouring into the war-activated Brazilian Air Force...
Laments and Regrets. The man who will be the 99th occupant of the Throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury received the press around the Christmas tree in Fulham Palace. His Lordship, a bald, long-eared, thin-lipped man, shoved the oldfashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles from his hooked nose to his forehead, jokingly lamented the terrifying job of moving in wartime, seriously lamented that anyone new should have to go to Lambeth Palace just now. Said he: "My great regret is that there should be this vacancy to fill. I knew Dr. Temple from the time when I was an undergraduate...
Last week, making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the new Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture...
Then one fine day Lord Bruce Carlton came back and killed the Captain. Amber suggested marriage to his Lordship, whose reply was to rush off to Virginia, leaving Amber with nothing but "two or three soiled shirts which carried [his] strong male smell...