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When the M.P.s were trooping out of the chamber, Attlee deliberately joined Churchill. As the argument grew hot between them, a crowd of M.P.s gathered around. As Churchill, still wrapped in his bulky overcoat, waved his arms up & down, Attlee seemed to shrink in size. They talked earnestly for a few moments, then Churchill's chubby face, still flushed, broke into a smile. The thunderstorm was over and they parted amicably. An M.P. privately explained: "Churchill also had difficulty with Wavell. He didn't give any reason when he fired Wavell from his Middle East command. There...
...children are wintering like rats. The youngest, Tiny, is lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...
Even a Shakespeare-or a Norman Corwin-might shrink from the task of putting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Bernard Baruch and Harry Hopkins into a room together and making them converse on Plato, Thomas Jefferson, tariffs and Joseph Stalin. But Columnist ("We, the People") Jay Franklin has done precisely that...
...will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not broad-minded and liberal ; he will identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error; he will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution ; he will...
...obvious way to use this water would be to divert it above sea level, north of Lake Tiberias. But this would sacrifice the power which the water would generate if allowed to fall into the deep Jordan rift. Besides, the Dead Sea, cut off from its water supply, would shrink or dry up; Palestine's planners do not want that. They proposed to solve the problem by an engineering stunt impossible anywhere else in the world...