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Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
...what wistful British investors remember as "the dear-money war" of 1914-18 you could rent your patriotic funds to King & country for as much as 5%. A daring pilot in the Royal Air Force in those days was Major Sir John Allsebrook Simon, who then sported a thick mop of hair. Last week, now bald as an egg, Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer again to do his bit for King & country, this time by trying to make World War II definitely "a cheap-money war" so far as Great Britain...
Anything but simple is the great legal mind of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer. But one day last week he was suddenly congratulated by almost every London newspaper on being the author of what Britons dubbed good-humoredly "Simple Simon...
Acting Head of the extremely active British Government last week was the Home Secretary, Sir John Allsebrook Simon, whose functions are normally the sinecure of preserving order in the well-behaved British Isles and advising His Majesty in cases where the royal prerogative of pardon should be exercised...
...Flying Sam" had been silenced in London last week by arthritis but his predecessor as Foreign Secretary, courtly Sir John Allsebrook Simon, now Home Secretary, took up the Empire theme. To a gathering of sturdy Britons at Cleckheaton in Yorkshire, Sir John cried: "Our moral authority is extremely high...