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Britain's Defense Minister Lord Alexander was lolling on a front bench reserved for, but seldom occupied by, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who ranks as the first peer of England next to the royal family. There was a sudden stir: Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, was entering the House of Lords...
...second great ovation burst out in the auditorium. Crowds in the gallery behind the speaker's stand whistled and shouted until he turned toward them. The ovation was in marked contrast to the reception of MacArthur's speech of the night before, which somehow failed to stir the convention...
NATO's fact-finders, working under the direction of Smith College Historian Massimo Salvador, got their figures by culling and comparing a mass of sources, including Russian newspapers. Two years ago, for instance, Russia created a stir by announcing that all Japanese and German P.W.s had been sent home, except for "a few thousand" awaiting trial for war crimes. At that time, Tass put the number of Germans repatriated at just over 1,000,000. Five years earlier, the Russians had admitted taking more than 3,000,000 German prisoners. That left close to 2,000,000 still captive...
...limit their attack to U.S. leaders, military men and "Wall Street imperialists," while professing to accept the U.S. people as misled, peace-loving friends; now Americans in general are depicted as beasts and cannibals; 2) previously the Russians learned most of their anti-American blasts outside of Russia, to stir up distrust and dissension; now the campaign, which began back in January 1951, is primarily beamed at the Russians themselves...
Said the Daily Express: "After the Churchill thunderburst comes the Butler rainbow." Bankers in the City grumbled that cabinet ministers ought to speak from the same script. Actually, Churchill was trying to stir the home folks, Butler to reassure the rest of the world, and both were in a way right-Butler in saying that the decline has not worsened, Churchill in saying that the situation is still perilous...