Word: welshness
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...Silent Village, produced by Humphrey Jennings, is a reenactment by Welsh miners of the story of Lidice, the Czech mining village whose male population was executed by the Nazis, in revenge for the killing of "Hangman" Heydrich. Out of all the uneasy efforts to commemorate that grim tragedy, The Silent Village emerges as the one conceivably adequate memorial. The film shows the official Nazi sound-truck rolling incongruously through the streets of the beautiful Welsh village, shows it croaking: "Achtung! Achtung! (Attention!)", shows the village's men, women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with...
...miner son of a Welsh immigrant, John Lewis grew up not in the school of Socialist Eugene Debs but in that of the late, great Sam Gompers, who made the House of Labor one. From Gompers, Lewis learned the conservative tactics of straight trade unionism. In the early years in the Mine Workers he feared, hated and fought those "carrion birds," Socialists and Communists...
...House of Commons calendar last week Question No. 45 had been put down by Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who delights in baiting the Churchill bull. Question No. 45: "To ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that a letter appeared in the Evening Standard . . . written by a serving officer attached to an intelligence unit in North Africa. ..." The officer: Winston's only son, Major Randolph Churchill...
Then Hennessey, pressing in the man-to-man defense, fouled Jackie Welsh. The Penn guard missed his charity toss, the Crimson took the ball off the boards, and kept it the rest...
Scotland's school system is independent of the combined English and Welsh system. As in the U.S., secondary education in Scotland is completely free, and it is not distinct from the elementary but develops from it. Like the Welsh, the Scots are hungrier than the English for learning: one Scotsman in 473 goes to a university, one Englishman...