Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's high-flying socialist party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, last week hit a line squall: the provincial election in Saskatchewan. When the storm had passed, the Dominion's only CCF government was still flying, but it had been badly jolted. As a national party, the CCF had lost some of the cockiness that grew out of last month's impressive gains in British Columbia and Ontario (TIME, June...
...Also the concluding thought in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm (TIME, June...
...Folly of the Victors. One theme dominates the first half of The Gathering Storm: the insensate folly of the victors of World War I in allowing the wicked to rearm. Churchill himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...
...reported to have been; the official information that he now releases simply fills in the account. The zest with which he writes of the British navy, and the clarity with which he describes naval battles, despite the fact that they are the most interesting part of The Gathering Storm, make it seem possible that in the future his absorption with the navy will seem his greatest limitation; perhaps it was the one quality that distorted his rounded view of the war. His personal anecdotes are sparingly chosen and are as illuminating as the stories that have carried across the centuries...
...Motives of Governing. It may be that the final value of The Gathering Storm will be in his picture of the satisfaction and motives of governing. At a time when dictators clung to office because the alternative was to be killed, or when the officials of democratic countries followed wrong policies because they feared defeat in election, Churchill's reports of the actual mechanics of governing, what chances he was willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism...