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    1.64 Brooks Atkinson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1894-1984
    After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
    Once Around the Sun (1951) 7 Jan.
    In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they
    were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed
    intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.
    There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
    and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of
    cutting each other's throat.
    Once Around the Sun (1951) 7 Sept.
    1.65 E. L. Atkinson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    E. L. Atkinson 1882-1929
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1882-1959
    Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates of the
    Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked
    willingly to his death in a blizzard to try and save his comrades, beset
    by hardships.
    Epitaph on cairn erected in the Antarctic, 15 Nov. 1912, in Apsley
    Cherry-Garrard Worst Journey in the World (1922) p. 487
    1.66 Clement Attlee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1883-1967
    Few thought he was even a starter
    There were many who thought themselves smarter
    But he ended PM
    CH and OM
    An earl and a knight of the garter.
    Letter to Tom Attlee, 8 Apr. 1956, in Kenneth Harris Attlee (1982) p. 545
    (describing himself)
    I should be a sad subject for any publicity expert. I have none of the
    qualities which create publicity.
    In Harold Nicolson Diary (1968) 14 Jan. 1949
    I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being
    able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
    Hansard 24 Oct. 1950, col. 2705
    The voice we heard was that of Mr Churchill but the mind was that of Lord
    Beaverbrook.
    Speech on radio, 5 June 1945, in Francis Williams Prime Minister Remembers
    (1961) ch. 6
    I remember he [Winston Churchill] complained once in Opposition that a
    matter had been brought up several times in Cabinet and I had to say, "I
    must remind the Right Honourable Gentleman that a monologue is not a
    decision."
    In Francis Williams Prime Minister Remembers (1961) ch. 7
    You have no right whatever to speak on behalf of the Government. Foreign
    Affairs are in the capable hands of Ernest Bevin. I can assure you there
    is widespread resentment in the Party at your activities and a period of
    silence on your part would be welcome.
    Letter to Harold Laski, 20 Aug. 1945, in Francis Williams Prime Minister
    Remembers (1961) ch. 11
    [Russian Communism is] the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine
    the Great.
    Speech at Aarhus University, 11 Apr. 1956, in The Times 12 Apr. 1956
    Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you
    can stop people talking.
    Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957
    1.67 W. H. Auden =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
    1907-1973
    Some thirty inches from my nose
    The frontier of my Person goes,
    And all the untilled air between
    Is private pagus or demesne.
    Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes
    I beckon you to fraternize,
    Beware of rudely crossing it:
    I have no gun, but I can spit.
    About the House (1966) "Prologue: the Birth of Architecture"
    Sob, heavy world,
    Sob as you spin
    Mantled in mist, remote from the happy.
    Age of Anxiety (1947) p. 104
    I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
    Till China and Africa meet
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street.
    I'll love you till the ocean
    Is folded and hung up to dry
    And the seven stars go squawking
    Like geese about the sky.
    Another Time (1940) "As I Walked Out One Evening"
    O plunge your hands in water,
    Plunge them in up to the wrist;
    Stare, stare in the basin
    And wonder what you've