Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...
Morrison has surrounded himself with a tight "general staff" of economists and technicians (among them Patrick Gordon-Walker, formerly history don at Christ Church College, Oxford, and Douglas Jay, formerly financial editor of the Daily Herald); with them he plans the execution of Labor's nationalization strategy. Morrison usually works till after midnight; afterwards he sometimes dances (he learned how late in life) into the small hours...
...clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
...speaker, who has never run the House smoothly, opened the session by ruling out of order a question by Progressive Conservative member Gordon Fraser. Progressive Conservative spokesman Gordon Graydon promptly bounded to his feet in protest. Then the galleries witnessed one of the worst shows that the House has put on in years...