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...Democratic nominee. His reluctance was based on three points: his disinclination to run against Eisenhower, his horror of a Truman endorsement and his desire to continue his promising career as governor of Illinois. At that time, Ike was thought to be invincible, Truman was regarded as ballot-box poison and Stevenson was sure of re-election as governor...
...murals in the foyer, stirred controversy during the thirties because of their unsubtle barbs in the direction of Adolf Hitler. Painted during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi Great Rehearsal, one shows a dwarf in military breeches whipping a group of nude workers. In the other, some soldiers with poison gas and flame throwers face others armed with but swords and shields in what seems an acute prognostication of the Blitzkrieg...
...seats on the executive as compared to Bevan's six. Attlee still runs the party, though his ineffectual resistance to Bevan at Morecambe cost him prestige. Herbert Morrison would continue on as Attlee's deputy leader in the House of Commons. "I will allow no bitterness to poison my soul," Morrison told the conference, in a moving speech which earned him renewed respect. The shock of the Bevan victory had already begun to soften...
...withdrawal-necessary to protect party members from Communist agents, who were supposedly threatening them. (In the past, the Reds and the neo-Nazis have been cheek by jowl.) But most Germans were convinced that the SRP was trying to dodge being outlawed, would try to continue to spread its poison underground...
...Pills & Poison. Most spies carry on (or in) their bodies three kinds of pills: 1) "knockout drops" ("which render a man unconscious for 24 hours"), 2) Benzedrine, 3) a quick-action poison for suicide. But the spycatcher may also be fairly certain that, apart from his pills, "every spy carries something incriminating either on his person or in his luggage." If he wears a watch & chain, for example, each jewel and metal segment of the watch, each link of the chain, must be microscopically examined for ciphers. All his cigarettes must be tested for invisible writing, all the tobacco sifted...