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...scientist working on the atom bomb, British security agents had simply ignored the fact-written black on white in a government file-that he had been a Communist. An indignant tornado swept up from Fleet Street. Lord Beaverbrook's papers even accused newly appointed War Minister John Strachey of being a Communist (see FOREIGN NEWS). Sir Percy Sillitoe, the tall, burly former South African police officer who heads M.I.5 (British counterespionage), conferred with Prime Minister Attlee; a shake-up of British security services was due. The British, no longer supercilious over U.S. "spy hysteria," ordered rechecking of personnel records...
Only 250 Britons now have incomes of more than $14,000 a year after taxes,* Food Minister John Strachey triumphantly told a political rally in Scotland. Before the war, said he, no less than 11,000 topped the $14,000 level. Said the Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Strachey boasts that the door is quietly shutting on the free economy in the cradle of freedom...
Horse lovers mobilized to halt the slaughter. "But it will be hard," said one M.P. pressing for Parliament control of the market, "to make Strachey [Minister of Food] do anything to limit this revolting business. After all, a horse steak fills the void...
What fatally distorts Critic Connolly's frank and intelligent book is his conception of "the artist." To Connolly, art is a fragile thing, and its maker a highly vulnerable esthete. Gide, Proust, Strachey, Rimbaud and other artists of a particularly tortured and susceptible nature are his inspiration; he draws none from more robust types such as Dickens, Trollope, Shaw, Dostoevsky, Thackeray. His artist is a creature entirely different from the rest of humanity-a fact that makes Connolly regard Mr. Shelleyblake's failure as something horrifying and unusual, as though it were not a common fate...
...when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott...