Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm gathered momentum. While the House buzzed with rumors, Attlee called a special Cabinet session, and Tory backbenchers called on Churchill to demand Dalton's head. In the evening, while Churchill was preparing a letter to Dalton demanding an inquiry, Attlee acted...
...principle of the inviolability of the budget," Attlee wrote to Dalton, "and the discretion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who necessarily receives many confidential communications, must be beyond question." He accepted Dalton's resignation...
Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Dalton might take heart from the remarks of a friend to Wilde's indiscreet hero: "Well, the English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has been in the wrong." Said one M.P. of the temporarily disgraced Dalton: "He'll serve his penance on the back bench for a few months-but mark my words, Hugh will get back...
Although its premature disclosure was a sensation, Hugh Dalton's budget itself was as quiet as a Treasury mouse. Besides the liquor taxes (see above), it sought Government revenues from football pools and dog racing (but not from horse racing). The profits tax was doubled...