At Durham, sleepiest of English "cathedral towns," the former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, now Viscountess Astor, famed original female M. P., orated in part as follows to an assembly which she suspected of harboring Communist sentiments:
"Perhaps some of you men pretend to think that Russia is a Paradise. I shall call your bluff! If I can find one solitary man, at present unemployed, who will agree to go to Russia and live there for two years, I myself will pay for his passage and for that of his family, if he has one!"...
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