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Best fiscal-aim-political opinion in London this week is that the deeply ingrained British mistrust of any "plan," and the proud memory of how many times Britain has successfully "muddled through," will continue dominant at the Exchequer. On the present scale, one group of Government experts believes that Britain can muddle along for another twelve months without more "extraordinary measures." After that the measures will either have to become extraordinary indeed or some rich friend-say, the U. S. -will have to carry the Empire on the cuff...
...with such insight and accuracy [TIME, July 31]. I know I speak the minds of many plain, ordinary church members, who hesitate to sound anything like a harsh note . . . when I say that the ballyhoo of these spiritual high-pressurists fills them with something akin to nervous suspicion and mistrust...
...nominally a Conservative, he has often played for a time on other political sides if he thought the game suited him that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since Adolf Hitler became Führer in 1933 Mr. Churchill has been preaching rearmament. He was one of the first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop...
...come to this city to corrupt public officials, buy and sell legislation and traffic in the honor of government. We invoke Thy wrath upon little men in large places who stoop to canny shrewdness to thwart the people's will and reduce the business of public affairs to mistrust and contempt...
...Theoretically, perhaps. "My skepticism, however, is based on the fact that it was America herself who gave sharpest expression to her mistrust in the effectiveness of conferences. For the greatest conference of all time was without any doubt the League of Nations...