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Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane...
...these lordly libels Mr. Duff Cooper did not trouble to bring suit. Socialist Ponsonby, being a peer, could not carry his attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell...
...Alfred Duff Cooper, Secretary of State for War, her husband...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, known to Britons of the War generation as Lady Diana Manners, famed for her impersonation of the Virgin Mary in The Miracle...
Secretary Duff Cooper was doing his best to attract recruits into the service last week. The base pay of the British soldier has been raised from 27? to 50? a day about ⅔ as much as the U. S. buck private.' If his ability to polish boots and clean pipes wins him a job as an officer's servant, he can count on another $5 a month, and if he stays in the army long enough to win the stripes, red sash and silver-headed cane of a sergeant, he can earn more than $17.50 a week...