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...Poland's life go deep-deeper than the Red Army's. He was born a peasant in a nation that is 75% peasant. He came up politically as a peasant spokesman. He has never lost his peasant temperament; he is solid, slow in speech and thought, stubborn in principle and action. His chief political defect is a peasant's sly caution, often carried to the point of hesitation at moments of decision. Even his only known hobby has the peasant touch: he is a beekeeper...
...hijack the American people through uncontrolled profits and inflations. ... Its clear aim is to exact unconditional surrender of the American people and the United States Government. . . . The steel industry now has the full and sole responsibility for the strike which must take place. . . ." . Had Big Steel really been merely stubborn in refusing to compromise for the President's proposal and thus avert a strike? One industrialist thought so. Big, bustling Henry Kaiser rushed to the White House with Phil Murray, emerged to announce that he had signed with the Steelworkers at 18½? for his plant at Fontana, Calif...
...months later Walker was sent back to the U.S. in a training command. The 36th, with replacements, fought on, landed in southern France, fought its way into Germany. But old 36th Division men still hate no man in the world as much as they hate lanky, stubborn Mark Clark...
...Said Coventry's M.P., Maurice Adelman: "I would rather never have an office than indulge in some of the place-seeking that is going on." Labor's youngish "intellectuals" in the House would like to throw 74-year-old Lord Pethick-Lawrence out of the India Office, stubborn Jack Lawson out of the War Office. But these are inevitable trifles...
...pride enough and am stubborn enough to feel that any promise made to my readers has got to be carried out. It will be. ... Perhaps this editorial should never have been written, but . . . after all, I've never been too gentle writing about others and there's no reason to spare myself...