Word: malcolm
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THINGS PAST by Malcolm Muggeridge Edited by Ian A. Hunter Morrow; 252pages...
Very early on, while others dismissed Hitler as an unimportant barbarian, Malcolm Muggeridge described the Nazi rise as a threat to civilization. He also fellow-traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and found Joseph Stalin a dangerous influence. Sounding alarms to the readership of the Guardian had little effect-except on the Muggeridge style. Soon he was deriding his own trade: "The only fun of journalism is that it puts you in contact with the eminent without being under the necessity to admire them or take them seriously. It is the ideal profession for those who find power fascinating...
From Camp David, President Carter flashed a quick message via satellite to Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Said the President: "I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia." Carter instructed the Department of State to offer assistance. None, however, was needed...
...White House badly needs him on its side if the pact is to stand any chance of passage. Thus the Administration accommodatingly lent Byrd Carter's own back-up jet, Air Force Two, a passel of State Department arms control experts as traveling companions and, as tour guide, Malcolm Toon, the testy U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. To shepherd Byrd around the Soviet Union, Toon will have to skip his embassy's July 4 celebration and his own birthday party (he will...
Watson will replace Malcolm Toon, 62, a career diplomat who managed to antagonize both Moscow and Washington...