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Message to Dissenters. By statement and implication, Winston Churchill showed that his first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief...
Voices from England. In London, Food Secretary Lord Woolton said that ships were at sea bearing "thousands of tons of cereals" to India. But his words did not allay a nation's conscience. Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: "The British Raj has failed in a major test. ..." Observed the ultra-Tory Sunday Observer...
...root vegetable called "wobbie," a cross between a carrot and a beet, with three to four times more vitamin C than either, is already under wide cultivation in The Netherlands. The Netherlands Press Agency in London made the announcement, but neglected to allay suspicions as to how wobbie would taste...
...Tunisians and their fellow Moslems in Africa and the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
...main points of Sir Arthur's Jamaican policy, intended to allay the ills of one of Britain's less successful and more uneasy colonies, were...