"Red-hot," "redheaded" Winston Churchill, ultra-reactionary Chancellor of the British Exchequer, alarmist par excellence, hurled defiance at the Soviet government last week in terms so abusive as to make a diplomatic protest from Russia all but inevitable.
Before an audience in London he literally shouted:
"I hope I shall live to see the day when either there will be a civilized government in Russia or when we shall have ended this present pretense of friendly relations with men who are seeking our overthrow. . . . "What folly Lloyd George committed when he brought these...