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...unique way, thus: Quo-"slick." Byrnes-"a small, crabbed . . . blinky, tight, screwed-up face . . . the sense of his words was sinister nonsense." Ala-"the little adventurer." Lange-"a serious, charming and humane individual." And as for Gromyko-"this face is full of strength . . . spoke always without anger, but with logic and force, and quiet determination...
...Attlee's tone, in Jinnah's cries of pain and anger, in unofficial British comment, observers saw signs that the British, often accused of supporting the Moslems against the Hindus, were ready to work for Indian unity. If Jinnah will not accept a compromise, the Viceroy may impose a constitution on India over the Moslem League's protest. The constitution might include a bill of rights to protect the Moslems, promise them the right to secede after a period of years. In other respects the Congress Party, now speaking for 60% of British India, would shape...
Russian faces were red, partly from embarrassment, partly from anger, partly from annoyance that they had so little to show for such a fuss. Moscow said that it had recalled the offending military attaché, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, "in view of the inadmissibility of the activities" of members of his staff. The secrets he got were not very good ones, Moscow added in tactless vexation, because they could be found in published works, including the "well-known pamphlets of the American Smyth." Quipped one wit: "The Russians complain the diamonds are paste...
Cheers & Jeers. Ernie landed a haymaker. "If ever there was a class act, it was this one." The rafters rang with Labor cheers. Bevin's jowls quivered with anger and excitement. Ignoring the Speaker, he yelled at Tories across the aisle: "You deliberately endeavored to destroy the economic and political power of the working man. You would do it again if you had the chance...
...inquiring Briton, an American would have to reply: the outstanding U.S. novelists are John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write novels...