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Massachusetts Institute of Technology has raised $16,000,000 for an enlarged physical plant, Marshall Daiton, Fund raising Chairman announced at a recent dinner...
...feel, that Europe is moving to the right, that Socialism is losing weight on the Continent. Many of them seem to want a Socialist United States of Europe or none at all. In Paris last fortnight, at a convention of European Socialists, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Daiton told why he and other Labor M.P.s who shared his views would boycott The Hague conference. Said Dalton: "As Socialists we must make sure that the success of the Socialist policy ... is not jeopardized by the premature creation of a political union . . . The federation of Europe will work only...
...larger personal following than Bevin's. Bevin himself wanted the power of the purse. Said he: "Give me five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I will so alter this country that no one will ever change it back." Reticent, scholarly Hugh Daiton, who considers himself insufficiently appreciated as a foreign-affairs expert, wanted to go to Whitehall. Attlee agreed, but later, during a solitary lunch, he mulled things over, and decided that he had the line-up backwards. Whitehall needed a strong man-Ernie Bevin...
...Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
...Labor's present Cabinet ministers-Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Hugh Daiton, who did the expelling -Wife Strauss wastes little comradely affection. Bevin and Co. has the refreshing frankness, some of the stylistic verve of a good family fight...