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Figures in this novel of invisible corruption include Dr. Talbot, rector of "Gloucester" College, Oxford, who lends his prestige to the concoction of war propaganda, and Lord Pontypool, a vulgarian press lord, whose horrible career is clearly based on that of megalomaniac Lord Northcliffe, creator of Britain's all-too-popular press. But the chief villain is one who usually appears as a fictional hero-the sensitive leftwing intellectual. Tony Caldecott had been the editor of a Quaker-financed liberal weekly and survives the war with a combat-won Military Cross and consciousness of a desperate cowardice known only...
This was the typical Tory line, and it was only partially effective. Rebellious British housewives and bakers submitted to bread rationing, and the Labor candidates won the by-elections. But the margin of victory had been narrowed. The coal and steel workers of Pontypool, Monmouthshire rejected 24-year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since...
...entirely the King's fault, for his entourage did everything in their power to insulate His Majesty last week from serious matters. A copy of the open letter from Welsh jobless was handed to one of the royal equerries at Cwmbran, another to the equerry at Pontypool, and copies were even strewn on the streets walked by Edward VIII. When the Chairman of the Blaenavon Town Council dragged the petition into a conversation with His Majesty, the King appeared to know nothing about it, asked, "Where is it? I want to read...
Laiborite Thomas Griffiths of Pontypool (shaking his fist at the Ministerial Bench): "You wasters! . . . You blackguards! . . . You rotters! . . . You thieves! . . . Your kind put my father in jail during the big strike...
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