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Penny-a-Week. Because she loves the proletariat sincerely, Mrs. Strauss writes excitingly about it. She gives an intimate picture of how the British Labor Party works at its roots-the local Party-among the people who pay a penny a week to belong...
...Cripps's followers was Patricia Strauss. Her husband, G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for London's Cockney slum, North Lambeth, was expelled with Cripps...
...Labor's present Cabinet ministers-Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Hugh Daiton, who did the expelling -Wife Strauss wastes little comradely affection. Bevin and Co. has the refreshing frankness, some of the stylistic verve of a good family fight...
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...
Hers is one of the liveliest books yet written on labor. Result is a picture of the trampling herd as seen by a talented family black sheep-and two ironies that Authoress Strauss did not foresee. Irony No. 1: Her leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...