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Actually the Conservative party has given little evidence of something more to offer than the Laborites. Tory leaders have remained discreetly silent on whatever plans they may have for solving Britain's economic difficulties. However, there is certainty that they could not undo whatever nationalization that has already set in. Not only would such a regression prove economically disastrous but would be out of keeping with the Conservative Party platforms of years past that have been built close by Labor Party platforms in favoring the nationalization of basic industries. Most significance in a near platform less Conservative Party's election...
Next day, President Harry Truman did his best to undo the damage.* Breaking the rule against direct quotation during White House conferences, he said: "Meatless and eggless days are for the purpose of saving grain. . . . When you save meat and poultry products you save grain, and grain is what is necessary to meet the hunger situation in Europe...
...seems to me that there is a tremendous difference caused by the fact that it is now man who threatens to undo the history ordained by God. ... In biblical prophecy and apocalypse, it is God who in one of His finally mighty acts brings history to an end. Now it is man who in blatant self-assertion, in fear-nourished pride, threatens to take his destiny into his own hands and hurl himself to destruction. This is the miserable arrogance of the creature who never learned to serve his Creator, the final blasphemy of man who thought that he could...
...other words, the U.S. would rue the day if the 80th Congress now undertook to undo the work of New Deal Congresses...
Jack Cade: Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo...