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Last fortnight Dean Inge replied to public protests against his objection to the bombing of German cultural monuments. Said he: "There is evidently a most evil temper among our civilians. . . . Philip Sober will [yet] be heartily ashamed of Philip Drunk...
...grill of Seattle's Olympic Hotel, where he talked to hundreds of Seattleites. One day he dressed up in kilts, marched down to Victory Square to greet a group of visiting bagpipers from a Vancouver shipyard. The talk he heard made Democrat Magnuson uneasy. Said he: "The temper of the people is alarming. We've got to streamline these war agencies or the people will swing too far and have them abolished entirely...
...years Tom has fed himself through an opening surgeons made in his abdominal wall. He chews his food, then spits it into a funnel attached to a rubber tube which runs through the opening to his stomach. A sensitive, self-respecting little man, with a peppery Irish temper, Tom has kept "the way I feed" a secret from all but his closest friends...
Common Wealth is not yet a serious political contender. Whether it can become one depends on the political acumen of Sir Richard Acland and the political temper of postwar Britain. Says Barbara Ward, foreign editor of The Economist, in the July issue of Foreign Affairs, after a survey of what youthful Britons in the armed services are thinking: "Young opinion in Britain is radical. Young people in Britain want change. They see that the times are revolutionary. . . . They want reform and progress." Says the Common Wealth Manifesto: "There is no use in patching up a way of life that...
...Sicily the Allies might uncover the true temper of Italy after three years of battle, privation and defeat; her will to resist further, her loyalty to Fascism...