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Pedaling serenely home from a 667-mile bicycle trip through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Federal Judge George A. Welsh wheeled up to his Lima, Pa. doorstep with news that men had heard before but hope always to hear again: "Whatever may be in store for us, you can count on the people. They will not fail...
...month ago, Judge Welsh set out on a bicycling vacation to see whether the old Republic had actually changed so much since he first biked along her roads half a century ago. He used Walt Whitman's sources: mechanics, paperhangers, plumbers, Governors. At journey's end he had seen how it was with the country and the people; the U.S. looked O.K. to him: "Down beneath it all, we are still the same good people...
...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 to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...
...Eton and Oxford man, Keynes represented the British Treasury at the Peace Conference in 1919. With prophetic foreboding he walked out on the Conference, wrote his scathing The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which made him famous overnight. He called Lloyd George a "Welsh witch," and Woodrow Wilson a "nonconformist minister . . . [whose] mind was slow and unadaptable." Most of what he predicted came true and people began calling him Cassandra...
...first story it is cast up at the feet of a Welsh child named Hoöl. Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...