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Britain last week broke its own Mediterranean blockade. Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton told the House of Commons that Britain and the U.S. together would send 8,000 tons of wheat to the hungriest country in the world, Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Hungriest Country | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Elaborating for the Ministry, gloomy, balding MEW Chief Dr. Hugh Dalton declared that Japan probably has resources of food for three years, of oil for at least 14 months, of rubber for a long, long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Enough to Go On | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Lloyd Dalton Lafleur, pharmacist's mate, second class, Beaumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare. Once at a children's party, Queen Victoria, who was "tottering" around, patting children on the head, reached "the infant Dalton" and asked: "And whose little darling are you?" Lisped Hugh: "I'm Queen Victoria's little darling." He is not Author Strauss's little darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New British Ruling Class | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Although he is the author of the Labor Party's standard propaganda work, Practical Socialism for Britain, Author Strauss feels that labor does not trust him. She quotes a Labor M.P. who said of Dalton's "unusually pale eyes": "they have a habit of looking at you intently and conveying unfathomable depths of insincerity." Dalton is also "the most prominent smasher of independent movements in the Party. ... If he suppresses leaks in the blockade as rigorously as he has tried to exterminate all ... expression of minority opinion in the Labor movement, the blockade will be positive indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New British Ruling Class | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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