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...League pamphlets slash viciously at the Zionists. One shows a Jewish boy on his knees saying "I want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
...sharply reminded of that fact last week by a Labor Party pamphlet which bluntly restated Labor's foreign policy. It will hear more this week, when party delegates convene for their annual conference at Margate (Britain's Atlantic City). There the party "rebels" (Nye Bevan, Dick Grossman et al.) will push their attacks against Ernie Bevin's foreign policy. They accuse him of 1) turning Britain into a Guam by undue dependence on the U.S., 2) being too hostile to Russia. The party's pamphlet, called Cards on the Table (a favorite Bevinism), admittedly...
...pamphlet admits vehemently that such an association has so far been made impossible by Russia's bearish, boorish behavior: "It is difficult to forgive from a recent ally such attacks as the following, broadcast to Norway by Moscow radio on June 8, 1946: 'This little country [England] went to war because it and its fascist reactionary leaders love war and thrive on war. The attack on Hitlerite Germany was purely incidental...
Speaking Labor's language had become an approved major tenet of Tory doctrine. The Conservatives had a new statement of party policy to talk about. Their platform was a pamphlet called The Industrial Charter. It was 38 close-printed pages, some major sections of which closely resembled some of the political philosophies expounded in Keep Left, the recent pamphlet of Richard Crossman, ambitious leader of Labor radicals in the House of Commons...
...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...