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...undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May, who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give milk, oxen for drawing loads...
...just what does it mean? Do the carrots refer to Gandhi and his vegetarian habits, or to Cripps himself, as the article would imply? Do the umbrellas symbolize No. 10 Downing Street, to which you imply Cripps may move, or do they stand for the shelter, peace-in-our-time type of government prevalent until...
...carrots represent Vegetarian Cripps (called affectionately by his friends "Christ & Carrots"); the umbrellas represent the Chamberlain regime, to almost all of whose policies for Britain and the Empire he was long opposed...
...denied his sincerity, and no informed person doubts it. Ayres has been a conscientious objector for almost ten years; he is supposed to have formed his views at the time he played the lead in "All Quiet on the Western Front." Since that time he has also been a vegetarian, in the belief that it is wrong to kill animals. In other words, the anti-Lew Ayres pressure is not directed against his individual case, but against all conscientious objectors, against all who refuse to fight on moral or religious grounds...
...Indian National Congress party, which has demanded complete independence, appeared to be in a receptive mood. Congress' Mohandas Gandhi spoke with easy informality of Sir Stafford: "I once had the pleasure of meeting him. The one thing we had in common is that he is a food faddist [vegetarian...