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There was another factor. For several months a British Brigadier, Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, had lived with the Parti sans as head of an Allied military mission...
Brigadier Maclean understood the relationship of politics and warfare. He put down what he had observed about Tito in a report that landed, fat, thick, crammed with a story that even yet waits to be published, on the desk of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. That report, and Britain's need for any fighting ally, convinced Downing Street that its warm smile for Peter's exiled Government, and its cold shoulder toward Tito, would have to be reversed...
...conference danced: Mignon MacLean, a blond diplomat from Arthur Murray's dance studios, turned up and soon had bewitched 20 of the 1,300 wise and wizened men of finance into signing up for dancing lessons...
...Saturn is the first full-length biography in 20 years of the saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...
...proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork and it flames!" Wrote Hazlitt to his bride : "I never love...