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...national health service for every Briton, regardless of income...
...Terror in Poland was the work of agents sent in by General Wladyslaw Anders, commander of the British-financed Polish Army in Exile. British taxpayers were footing the bill for the murders. Polish Communists (900) and Socialists (250) had been killed, as well as Peasant Party members. (A Briton commented that it was curious solace for the Peasant Party to know that everybody was being murdered...
...dark days of 1942, when Prime Minister Churchill broke the news to Premier Stalin that there would be no second front that year, it looked as though the worst had happened. With beleaguered Briton and resentful Russian glaring at each other, the war might be lost. The man who had the two allies warmly toasting each other's health before they parted was His Majesty's Ambassador to Moscow: an emollient, easygoing Scot named Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr. Last week Clark Kerr (pronounced clark karr) was set for more peacemaking in Britain's current...
British fascists probably do not number more than 50,000, but their early reappearance has startled Britons, embarrassed their Government. When angry M.P.s in the House of Commons last week demanded action against the fascists, they knew they were raising a classic question. Home Secretary James Chuter Ede drew the classic answer from Milton: "Where people aim at extirpating free discussions, they must be regarded as ripe for extirpation themselves." Mr. Ede continued with an assessment of Mosley that only a Briton could make: "We have a very ancient democracy, with a great sense of humor, and I am quite...
...Many a Briton who had voted Labor wondered and worried. But Labor was undeterred. Buttressed by the people's renewed mandate in municipal elections (see above), it proceeded inflexibly on its course to state ownership. The Bank of England had lost its battle, the coal owners were reconciled to coming defeat. Labor was widening its socialist grip, tightening its socialist squeeze...