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Saroyan's prefaces are not by any means he glittering mirror-mazes in which Shaw shows off his plays, but he delivers limself of some nobly arrogant lines...
Herbert Morrison had some supporters, among them Humorist A. P. Herbert, who said of the Mirror's attacks on brass hats: "By God, that particular passage about the Army is a damned disgusting blackguardly thing...
...Laborite Bevan, who declared that he never had liked the Mirror, really put Herbert Morrison on the spot. He casually pulled a bundle of clippings from his pocket and began reading from articles that Morrison himself had written for the Mirror before he became a member of the Government. One said that "the people want less muddled advice from the top"; another, that War Minister Hore-Belisha had been ousted by the brass hats because he wanted to democratize the army...
...Could there be any more seditious suggestion," cried Bevan, "at the very time when the British Army was in France facing the enemy . . . undermining confidence in the High Command just as much as anything the Daily Mirror has printed since...
Significantly, at week's end, the Mirror's biting Columnist "Cassandra"-burly, 32-year-old, Irish-born William Neil Connor -announced he was quitting to join the Army. Britain's most detested, adored, vastly read gadfly thus said farewell: "I am still a comparatively young man and I propose to see whether the rifle is a better weapon than the printed word. Mr. Morrison can have my pen-but not my conscience. Mr. Morrison can have my silence-but not my self-respect...