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Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
...guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said. "We are all naturally concerned with the prodigious experiments in the Pacific, but ... we would rather have them carried out there than in Siberia...
...showe this document to Senator Mc-Mahon ... He told me: 'If I had seen this agreement, there would have been no McMahon Act.' " The House rocked in amazement. "Resign!" shouted Laborites. Beefy Laborite M.P. Bessie Braddock bawled: "Why don't you get out?" But Sir Winston just plowed on through the fertile soil of logic...
Windup. Disappointed Laborites cried "shame" at this "concession" to U.S. views. But Sir Winston, undaunted, carried the fight to them. He chided the neutralists: "It is a delusion to suppose that a declaration of our neutrality would make us immune to danger from Russia...
...United States withdrew from Europe altogether-as well she might-with her three-quarter circle of hydrogen bases already spread around the globe, she would face Russia alone," said Sir Winston, "as she certainly could. I cannot doubt that war in those circumstances would be nearer than it is today, when the anxiety of the United States-to their abiding honor-is so largely centered on the freedom and safety of Western Europe and the British Isles...