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...probably as undesirable as it is impossible," the editors wrote then, they were "ready to acknowledge certain prejudices which may in varying measure predetermine their opinions on the news." They listed a catalogue of typical convictions: "1. A belief that the world is round and an admiration of the statesman's 'view of all the world.' "2. A general distrust of the pres ent tendency toward increasing inter ference by the government...
...toes twinged again. This time Tom wanted the Senate to get going on a vote on the tidelands oil bill, which means a lot to Texas. The vote was being held up by a discussion of Hawaii's plea for statehood. Hawaii, snorted Minor Statesman Connally from the Senate floor, is just "a province out in the Pacific Ocean ... I think I am a better American than a great many people who live in Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The majority of the people there are not of American ancestry or descent...
...Nash Statesman and Ambassador (Nash's small car, the Rambler, is essentially unchanged) are clean and speedy-looking, with sloping hoods that give them greater road vision than many other U.S. cars. The new models have 25% more window space than last year's and the widest seats on the road (64½-in. rear seat, 65-in. front), although the body is only 1 inch wider...
Havoc & Confession. Thereafter, Beverley met everyone, from Gertrude Stein (like "seeing Gibraltar at dawn") to Queen Elizabeth (he played her a Chopin étude when she was Duchess of York). But the person who turned his glamorous life upside down was Journalist Dorothy Woodman (wife of New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin), who convinced him in the twinkling of an eye that war was just "a racket." Beverley had found the "cause" he needed to balance his "idiotic life" as a bright young thing. The book that resulted from his conversion, Cry Havoc (1933), proved to be one of the influential...
Churchill's blockbuster, admitted London's leftist New Statesman and Nation, "was a very carefully placed bomb whose crater opened precisely between Mr. Morrison and his followers." The political future of Herbert Morrison, long the No. 2 man in Labor councils, was wounded badly, perhaps mortally. Clement Attlee had been shown up as a man who kept embarrassing secrets from many of his own political team...