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...described as an authority on nature's counterpart of the R. A. F.-falconry. Britons were reminded that in World War I he nicked the plane of the great German Ace Immelmann with a rifle; that in 1917 he went out five times a night to bomb and once engaged no less than five enemy planes at a time. He was, in short, a very dragon-killer...
Viewed from its too many angles the new Cabinet shaped itself up as a time bomb which must eventually explode. Encased in their common desire for victory, there must nevertheless be some acid friction between Bevin, who was the brains of the General Strike, and men who helped break it; between others who had learned not to trust each other's judgment in the past and had no particular assurance that in a pinch they could trust each other's judgment...
...keynote of his people's temper. He still rode high in their affections as war leader, but there was also a grumble, which CBS Broadcaster Edward (christened Egbert) Murrow defined as coming from caste-conscious Britons who were beginning to realize that "all are equal under the bomb...
...plus side, the recovery of Britons in adversity was universally reported to be phenomenally quick, at least as far as non-military enterprises were concerned. Large London department stores like Bourne & Hollingsworth and Peter Robinson opened twelve hours after being bombed, with piles of debris covered over in some cases by flags. Damaged goods went on sale. One punning Londoner cracked: "It's bomb marché in Oxford Street this week...
When a German incendiary bomb marked J. P. K. burned itself harmlessly out beside his Windsor house, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy said: "Initials don't count...