Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show Window. In his own area and beyond it, at such places as the recent Colombo Commonwealth Conference (TIME, Jan. 23), MacDonald follows up his practice of racial equality and tireless preaching on political and economic themes. "I don't think the Asian people care about Communism as Communism," he says. "Their very natures are opposed to it. But there are two great causes in which they believe passionately-national freedom and the uplift of Asian masses. If we Western democracies show that we strongly support these policies and will help achieve them, Asia will never go Communist...
Accounts of Attlee's unexpected elevation usually contain some such phrase as "despite his colorless personality." As is often the case, the phrase "because of" can substitute for "despite." MacDonald was colorful to the point of flamboyance, and Labor's ranks had loved him dearly. After MacDonald's "betrayal," the embittered Laborites wanted no more color; they wanted a man they could trust. Attlee's sincerity and staying power were patent; the Laborites gave him the leadership when Arthur Greenwood and Morrison, in bitter rivalry, knocked each other out of the ring...
...Churchill's deputy in the coalition war cabinet, Attlee acquired immense administrative experience and developed his sense of balance and timing. Colleagues noticed that when he presided in Churchill's absence, the cabinet got a lot of business done. But Attlee, perhaps still resenting the Baldwin-MacDonald deal, has always hated coalitions. He left the war cabinet as soon as he could, and surprised the world with the smashing Labor victory...
Shelley has been deported so often for misbehavior that she is now down to her last island. Blackmailer Cognac (Luther Adler) hires her to sing in his cafe, and to sweet-talk Macdonald Carey out of some information on a wartime Jap rubber-smuggling deal...
Shelley seems closer to Brooklyn than the South Seas, and the serious lines she gets to speak sound like a bad burlesque of Mae West. But she puts over her songs, mostly such oldtimers as It Had to Be You, with vigorous good humor. Macdonald Carey appears to be wisely conserving his energies for more important assignments. If expert villain Luther Adler had had more to do, he might have stolen the whole show before Shelley had a chance to sing her numbers and get kicked off the island...