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...notice some folks don't like to "give the devil his due." Had California been taken from us 20 years ago, we most certainly would get it back and we wouldn't go to Munich and ask John Bull's permission either. And if he threw out his mighty chest in defiance because he thought he ruled the earth as well as the seas, we'd likewise teach him to mind his own business, wouldn't we ? I can't appreciate a big bully who, after getting his ears pinned back for butting...
...dread term Munich men returned to British tongues again. Many critics attributed the Government's failure to open a second front to high officialdom. The critics suspected anxiety to restore the old order and a fear of Russian victory...
Critics of Munich men did not worry about dynamic Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, whose verbal leaps into bed with Russia have been spectacular, who has reportedly urged a British Expeditionary Force in the Ukraine or the Donets Basin. But the testy, growling Beaver himself was stirring up a Cabinet crisis that might bring about a drastic reorganization. Last week he was wheezing with his periodic asthma. His sickness may have been partly political, for he threatened to resign. Behind his threat was seen a warning that he would like the non existent post of Minister of Production, a powerful combination...
Prime Minister Churchill had nothing to say about a Minister of Production, about Munich, or about anything else. But the plainest words spoken to Winston Churchill last week came from one of his and one of Lord Beaverbrook's good friends. Said the scholarly London Economist, partly owned by the Prime Minister's friend Brendan Bracken and the Beaver's first lieutenant Sir Walter Layton...
...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...