INTERNATIONAL: One Great Eternal Unit

INTERNATIONAL "One Great Eternal Unit"

The late George ("Honest Jarge") Lansbury, who died last May at 81, was known and loved in every town of Britain. Son of a railway worker, he earned a modest fortune in the lumber business, retired, went into the labor movement, became the Labor Party's Parliamentary Leader. He was a passionate lover of peaceĀ—so single-minded that when his Party favored sanctions against Italy, he resigned and went back to the slums, where even in his late 703 he still lived.

War, when it came, broke his heart. Last week...

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