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...Cover) Here was Nottingham, where 300 years before, Charles I broke with Parliament and challenged Cromwell's Roundheads...
...hear you like photo finishes," cried Anthony Eden to the horse-betting Nottingham crowd. "All right, but just get the right man ahead this time." Women craned and gawked to get a good look at the handsome, well-tailored Prime Minister of Great Britain, up there on the crude wooden platform. It began to drizzle. Eden patted his grey hair. "My word, it's rain. Well, never mind, I'm sure the sun will shine again." There were chuckles from the crowd. "The cost of living has gone up much less under us than under the Socialists . . ." Eden...
...Russia was touch & go, and that their only safety for the future lay in joining his ranks. As an added inducement, he let fall almost casually the names of some who had already consented to serve in his presidential Cabinet: Sir Winston Churchill as Minister of War, Britains Lord Nottingham as Foreign Secretary ("Winnie" and "Nottie" to the President) and International Bank President Eugene Black as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Britain's Princess Margaret laid aside her mink coat, put on a white overall and helmet, descended a quarter-mile into a coal mine near Nottingham. Chipping off a lump of coal with a pickax, she said: "I'll have to get this mounted!" When a cutting machine wafted some coal dust into her mouth, the miners beamed as the princess cried, "It tastes delicious...
...author of this subversive piece uses every device at his command to paint a grim picture of capitalism in the person of the Sheriff of Nottingham. We are told that he lives in splendor from the immense sums he extorts from the other bourgoisic. There is the implication that he profits directly from the labors of others...