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Unflappable Man. In a time of financial crisis, Chancellor of the Exchequer was the most crucial job in the Cabinet. It fell to Rab Butler, and he promptly showed his independence by refusing to let Churchill put an "overlord" above him. The two men still have their differences. Rab's intellectuality grates on the old man, and Butler once confided to a friend: "I believe Winston still thinks of me as a bright young man just down from Cambridge." As opposed to Churchill's inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable...
...most dangerous of such conspirators are recruited on an ideological basis. The gangster is a lone wolf who has been domesticated by his boss; a rebel against society and morality, he is likely to break into rebellion against his overlord or to crack up under pressure of police questioning. But the American who becomes a Communist spy is not especially likely to have an unstable personality. Indeed, some of them have been able to produce impressive testimony that they seemed to fit very well into the way of life that they were secretly committed to destroy. Among conspirators of this...
Murder. Another doctor, Edmund Leetaru, testified that after the Wehrmacht pushed the Russians back, he served on a commission that investigated Communist executions in Estonia, where the late Andrei Zhdanov was the Red overlord. The commission found some 200 corpses buried in the prison yard in the city of Tartu. Most had been shot in the back of the neck. But "several didn't have any bullet holes at all; their heads had been crushed...
...more serious is the "near crisis" in agriculture revealed by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who doubles as party secretary and overlord of Soviet farming. Khrushchev succeeded Malenkov in Stalin's old job as boss of the party; the fact that he confessed a "serious lag" in food production attests to the growing alarm of the Soviet leaders. The facts, as Khrushchev gave them: ¶ A shortage of cattle in 1952 equal to 22 million head. ¶ A decline in pork, from 5,000,000 tons in 1940 to 1,600,000 in 1952. ¶ A drop in butter production...
Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash...