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...Etonian & the Plumbers. Unlike Professor Lattimore, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for War, was for years an open and eloquent Communist spokesman (after a brief partnership with Sir Oswald Mosley, who became a fascist). Ever since his appointment, which drew violent protests from part of the British press (TIME, March 13), U.S. officials have been worrying about Strachey's reliability. Last week, from the Western Defense Ministers' conference at The Hague, came a sensational story: U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson had told British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell...
Acid Test. The Birmingham owners treated their Old Etonian employee just like any Tom, Dick or Harry. In return, Henry Yorke was profoundly impressed and fascinated by his working mates ("I loved them"). Like them he was usually covered with acid stains and engineering grime, but he still did not look the part enough to deceive anyone. "I'll bet he is a public-school boy," he once heard a Birmingham woman say sadly. "I wonder what has brought him to this...
...slender Emperor believed, as an old Etonian should, in the classics in the classroom and pluck on the playing fields. During World War II he stood firm against parents who suggested that Eton should be moved to a place more remote from enemy bombs. If London's poor could not move from London, said the Emperor, Etonians would not move from Eton. Later, some bombs did fall, barely missing a library full of boys. But Eton did not move...
...school traditions, was a member of Britain's famed Fleming Committee to get underprivileged children into the public (i.e., private) schools. About the only break with tradition the Emperor had made was to abolish required top hats, and that was because of a shortage of toppers. Many Etonians were willing to bet that new Headmaster Birley might find some other Etonian practices...
...Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise the fact that this flurried arrival departed from the tradition of the British Treasury and the Bank of England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain's financial pants for two and a half centuries had been held up by the stoutest braces...