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...London. At 47, Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, Bart., a graduate of Eton and Oxford, a lieutenant colonel of His Majesty's Cameron Highlanders, was not one to get in a pother about an election campaign; Sir Hugh had few doubts that his constituents would troop dutifully to the polls on Feb. 23 and return him to Parliament with an impressive majority. Said the South Hendon Tory Association chairman, Dr. Rowland Cockshut: "Everything is well in hand...
Hostility & Homage. He had lived through "wars and depressions and catastrophes." Some of the guests at his party could remember how, as a man of 39, he had left the concert stage to serve in the Austrian army in World War I. He had been severely wounded-"A whole troop of Russian Cossacks rode over me." Some could also remember, with embarrassment, how he had returned to a U.S. that had become bitterly hostile to "Hun" music and "Hun" musicians, and how he had turned hostility to homage with the simple beauty of his playing...
What makes "Mary" especially unfortunate is that a similar combination of Hepburn, Scotland, and good music worked out fine in "The Little Minister." You get the feeling that Ford must have been pretty lost in the 16th century Scottish hills, without even a six-shooter or a cavalry troop to keep him company...
Williams writes with a soldier's knowledge of tactics, troop movements and logistics. He also writes less like a historian than a staff officer setting down a combat analysis. The result is no placid study, but a creative rethinking of whole campaigns...
Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...