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...famine and revolution closed in on India, a Briton and an Indian made gestures...
...Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
...Egyptian, Dr. Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha, seldom speaking, always aware that within the morals and fires of the debate a great contest for Eastern empire was on between the Briton and the Russian...
...Bidault of France, paling and almost visibly sweating when the Laborite Briton thundered for decisions which would anger the Communists of Paris...
...critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement. By the '305 the bang and sparkle of this literary Fourth of July was as spent as a dead rocket. To an 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...