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...Each new member," says Authoress Strauss thriftily, "means another penny a week to be collected on Sunday mornings." But the canvassing is "arduous and disappointing work." When one "innocent canvasser" asked "a pregnant Cockney woman," "Are you for Labor?" she turned on him "scornfully," said: "This ain't no bloody mosquito bite...
Joys and Glooms. Despite their willingness to forego cinema and saloon, "the members of the local Party are not angels. They are ordinary human beings who get tired and cross and irritable. Even working together for a common cause does not make people love one another." Mrs. Strauss's sketches of British Labor's leaders make this fact clear...
There is great mutual distrust between the Labor Party's middle-class politicians and official leaders, like Attlee and Greenwood, and Proletarians Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. Another irritation is the distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability...
...leader of the London County Council he tore down "undoubtedly beautiful" but shaky Waterloo Bridge amid loud outcries, built a bridge that could be crossed. He also tore down slums, ran up housing projects, created a Green Belt around London. Morrison, says Author Strauss, would "cheerfully die at the barricades to defend the sewage system of London." Mrs. Strauss admits that Herbert's "dictatorial methods" are justified by results, but she cannot forgive him the remarks he made during the Popular Front fight...
...Communists make no secret of their purpose, and I really wish Sir Stafford, Mr. Strauss, and Professor Laski would be as clear about these things as the Communists are themselves...