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...Haven newspaper: "No written words could have been better contrived to poison town and gown relations than the... Registrar's viciously biased report and editorial ... on the riot ... It is a tragic pity that the staggering community problem posed by City-University relations could only be met by venom and bombast... The present critical situation has been one that called for... understanding, perception, and maturity. These qualities were conspicuously lacking on both sides...
...Vision & Venom. Shrewd Premier Pinay, who likes to pose as no politician, just a technician, had lasted in office seven months. But as the National Assembly prepared to convene after a three months' recess, he was in a hot fight for survival. "I have the people behind me and Parliament in front of me," Pinay often says. His opposition in Parliament-Gaullists, Communists, and to some extent, Socialists -were all crying for the head of Pinay's Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman...
...conference itself, Aneurin Bevan, the errant mate in Labor's house, started the fur flying with a pyrotechnic display of wit, venom, vituperation and mock humility. "The U.S.," he told the conferees, is "hagridden by fears: fear of war and unemployment, and fear of peace." He accused Churchill and the U.S. of tying Britain's "economy to a perpetual war machine. This is rake's progress." However, the pink-cheeked Welshman twinkled cheerfully as he castigated his private enemies and Britain's friends alike, "I know I must be careful, lest I make a controversial speech...
...will be changed without notice. Four months ago Ai Tze-chi was Red China's chief indoctrinator or, as he was generally called, Brainwasher No. 1. In his bimonthly magazine Hsueh Hsi, Ai laid down the party line for all & sundry. Only China's academicians escaped his venom. That was because Ai had a soft spot for them: "China's higher intellectuals, while not yet fully wholesome . . . still can be considered to contain progressive and active elements...
...Northcliffe, who seldom worked from the Times office, harried Editor Dawson by phone, cable and mail from watering places all over the Continent. He bombarded his staff of "weaklings" and "dullards" with denunciations and demands, called himself "the Ogre of Fleet Street," and often signed his orders "Lord Vigour & Venom." Once he cabled: THIS MORNINGS ARTICLE IS ALRIGHT BUT IS LARGELY A RECAPITULATION OF WHAT MY OTHER PAPERS SAID DAYS AGO. THE TIMES SHOULD LEAD AND NOT FOLLOW PUBLIC OPINION...