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...mind was once described as "the type which was considered advanced and enlightened at the close of the last century." He was a competent Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1915-16), but of his efforts as wartime Director of National Service, Lloyd George wrote in his memoirs: "A vein of self-sufficient obstinacy in the new Minister contributed to the difficulties that baffled all our endeavors...
Neville Chamberlain's vein of self-sufficient obstinacy made him believe he could cope with them and made the desperate, traumatic old Empire believe in him, while Adolf Hitler repeatedly proved him wrong. It would not be too fantastic for Hitler to have hastened last week's invasion of the Low Countries in an effort to take advantage of the Cabinet crisis, to keep Chamberlain in power. If that was his intention, Britain for once had fooled him. Without Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon and other appeasers, she turned at last to face her destiny...
...bookshops in both towns proclaim in gigantic letters across their windows that no one should miss reading Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came, "a book about indestructible India." No other books seemed to be advertised. Now this story is written in a strongly anti-British vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures...
...crowd of doctors from all over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient's bed. The patient had syphilis. From the bottom of the jar, a yellowish fluid trickled through a flexible glass tube into a needle inserted in the vein between his elbow and wrist. Proudly the patient grinned at his distinguished guests, flexed his arm. Snapped his nurse: "Don't show off." The apparatus was an ordinary "Murphy drip," long used for glucose feedings...
...Lancet is an excellent weekly medical journal; but it is British. Its lucid medical articles delight U. S. medicos; its self-consciously lighter vein also delights them. Every week since the war began the Lancet has devoted a pasture-page to "our peripatetic correspondents," for gripes, wisecracks, sentimental reflections. Last week a peripatetic correspondent sounded off on British medical society dinners...