Word: grigg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's Cooking? It seemed clear that Field Marshal Montgomery was getting ready for multiple crossings in the north, and that the attacks would be spearheaded by Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Sir James Grigg stated flatly that "our forces" were preparing to cross ''in force...
Britain's War Secretary Sir James Grigg rose in the House of Commons in London one day last week to charge that the Canadian Army in Germany was, in fact, not Canadian. Said he: "United Kingdom troops form two-thirds of the Canadian First Army." He could not, he said, give details, for security reasons. But two facts did pass censorship: last week the Canadian First Army was about three-fourths British; the "Canadians" who last month broke through the formidable Reichswald were mainly the British XXX Corps, seasoned in North Africa and Sicily...
...snow, or the Minister of Labor [Ernest Beyin] had kept the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden] in exile for a great many years, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson] had shot at and wounded the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] or the head of one or the other of the spending departments - if we who sit here together had all backbitten and double-crossed each other while pretending to work together, if we had all put our own group and party first and our country nowhere, if we had all set ideologies, slogans or labels...
Plagued by anxious wives and uniformed husbands, the Secretary of State for War, Sir James Grigg, told the House of Commons that it had been a mistake ever to let the committee's work become public knowledge. There the matter uneasily rested...
...James Grigg, Secretary of State for War: I am not aware of anything of the sort, and I think it extremely unlikely...