Word: cassandra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Sunday 50,000 Britons jammed Trafalgar Square to hear the Daily Mirror's Cassandra and eleven others plead for a second front in 1942. Afterward they contributed $10,000 to a second-front propaganda fund...
...accused the Mirror of divulging military information (hitherto the sole topic of British censorship). The crime of the Mirror was in criticizing the Government, the productive effort and the efficiency of the Army-criticizing it continuously, bitterly and intemperately. (Sample attack on the Army by the Mirror's "Cassandra": "At the top you have the military aristocracy of the Guards' regiments with a mentality not very foreign to that of Potsdam. In the center you have a second-class snobocracy and behind it all the cloying inertia of the Civil Service bogged down by regulations from which they...
Tabouis' wealth of information and insight worked as much against as for her. She became less a guide than a sensation. They called her Cassandra, forgetting that it was not Cassandra but the Trojans who would not listen to her who made the big mistake. For France did not die merely of the wounds inflicted by murderers and traitors. France died first of the deafness, blindness, dumbness and frivolity which are the proud hallmarks of the skeptical civilized mind...
...world's first great successful tabloid, is no small game. It has over 2,000,000 circulation and is the most popular paper with British servicemen. It is neither pacifist nor defeatist, but it has unmercifully ribbed the blunders of the British war effort. Its Columnist Cassandra,* a bespectacled, vitriolic Irish hefty named William Connor, has furnished most of the ammunition...
...What is the Government so worried about?" was the typical public reaction. The Telegraph (which for some months has succeeded the Times as Tory spokesman) said that the Mirror's cartoon and Cassandra's jobs "come under the head of irresponsible wrecking of morale." But the rest of the British press, from the Conservative Times to the Laborite Herald, sided with the Mirror against Morrison...