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Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Post-War Reconstruction, has "a disconcerting ability to make impassioned speeches of which it is afterwards difficult to remember the content." "He gesticulates a great deal with loose wrists, so that one watches his hands fascinated, certain they will fly off his arms. . . ." Says Authoress Strauss: "Of his claim to near-greatness there is no question. . . . But indulging his passion for speaking at public meetings has debauched his mind...
Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...
...Minister of Economic Warfare. Once at a children's party, Queen Victoria, who was "tottering" around, patting children on the head, reached "the infant Dalton" and asked: "And whose little darling are you?" Lisped Hugh: "I'm Queen Victoria's little darling." He is not Author Strauss's little darling...
Although he is the author of the Labor Party's standard propaganda work, Practical Socialism for Britain, Author Strauss feels that labor does not trust him. She quotes a Labor M.P. who said of Dalton's "unusually pale eyes": "they have a habit of looking at you intently and conveying unfathomable depths of insincerity." Dalton is also "the most prominent smasher of independent movements in the Party. ... If he suppresses leaks in the blockade as rigorously as he has tried to exterminate all ... expression of minority opinion in the Labor movement, the blockade will be positive indeed...
...will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct statement" is summed up in one incident...