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Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton triumphantly announced that Britain's own 2½%, 21-year domestic loan of ?415 million had been oversubscribed...
...British Communists' request for affiliation with the Labor Party, the delegates gave a resounding no (the ratio: 6-to-1). Bronzed, scholarly Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton summed up the Laborite attitude in a preconference rally speech: "We are not going to be mucked about by that lot any more...
...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
...anything. Otto Kruger's Waldo Lydecker, who, in his own words, "sprang from the womb with an epigram on my lips," is too amusing, turning what should have been a taut mystery into a second rate Phillip Barry drawing room comedy incidentally concerned with murder. "Laura's" John Dalton climax, so successful in the film, is inexplicably greeted by laughs in the play: the change in medium has somehow twisted the playwright's intentions...
...Perhaps Dalton did not have all the answers, but opposition to the Dalton budget was perfunctory. Even Conservative speaker Anthony Eden was partially reassured: "The Chancellor has played his part," said he, though he added, "but what are his colleagues doing?" His answer came from Leeds (see below...