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...Birds & the Flowers. The Honorable Members drifted in behind the procession to hear the solemn reading of the budget by big (6 ft. 3 in.) Hugh Dalton. Hearty Hugh Dalton had played to the hilt a role in another solemn custom of Budget Week. By British tradition a Chancellor of the Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay...
...patient was charted in Britain's dwindling dollar holdings and in her trade balance (TIME, Feb. 3). Britons asked themselves if a Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
Speaking at Newcastle, hub of the nowly-nationalized coal industry, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said bluntly that Britain was living on borrowed money and must produce more goods for export of face a lower standard of life and more unemployment...
...Hugh Dalton, Great Britain's scholarly, well-groomed Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been chosen chairman of the joint boards of governors, to succeed U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. London had been chosen for next year's meeting place...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...