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...months ago the Standard got in even hotter water when it launched a campaign to kick John Strachey out of the government because he had once been a party-liner. When Strachey was appointed Secretary of State for War the same day that Spy Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison, the Standard headlined: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. For Coupling Fuchs and Strachey, the British press jumped on the Standard so hard that the doughty Beaver began to worry. At the start, he and Gunn had both agreed that the campaign was a fine idea, but the Beaver...
Editor Gunn was called back from his vacation fortnight ago and summarily sacked. In addition to the dust-up over Strachey and the Korean headline, Gunn last week told fellow journalists that he and Beaverbrook had had an even more important disagreement: they had quarreled over fundamental policy for the Standard. He went into no details, but the word on Fleet Street was that the Beaver wanted to change the paper's style, tone down its strident voice and make it something like the conservative Daily Telegraph. At week's end the Beaver was still looking...
Speaking at Colchester, Britain's Secretary for War John Strachey called the Schuman Plan "this plot," and attacked the coal-steel authority as "an irresponsible international body free from all democratic control." In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill demanded an explanation of this inflammatory speech. Harassed Prime Minister Attlee tried to defend Strachey, ended by saying himself that it was "perfectly fair" to say the Schuman Plan would put very wide powers "into the hands of an irresponsible authority...
...could be said with as much assurance as is ever brought to human affairs that Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not spies. The ideas of Lattimore, Strachey and Joliot-Curie were not the same, but anyone with a lively sense of danger in the free world could legitimately hold the opinion that the ideas of these three might be more dangerous than a carload of spies...
...people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where Strachey conveyed the quality and texture of a period, Maurois lacquered his work with the weary irony of the worldly boulevardier...