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...amount of cajolery and no attempts at ethical or social seduction," he told a meeting of Laborites at Manchester, "can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin . . ." "What is Toryism," he asked later, "but organized spivery...
...Tories hate Mr. Bevan, the higher will be his prestige in his party." Just the same, Labor Party leaders who knew they had to woo former Tories in order to stay in power were appalled by the Bevan outburst (see cut). On Bevan's Chelsea house someone painted: "Vermin Villa-home of a loudmouthed...
...infuriated the Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed to regard him as vermin. Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, who had led the cheering section for Gide, now denounced him as a "wicked...
...years ago, a Han Dynasty prince and philosopher, Han Fei-tze, became disillusioned with this Confucian assumption. Seeing his kingdom losing power and territory, Han expressed himself in works entitled Solitary Indignation, Five Vermin and 18 others. Said cynical Han: "Force can always secure obedience; an appeal to morality, very seldom." Han, too, has followers in contemporary China...
...three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...