Word: grigg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party. Conservative prestige reached a wartime low last month when Churchill's friend, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, was defeated in a by-election by William D. Kendall, an unknown Independent (TIME, April 6). This week another friend of Churchill's, War Minister Sir James Grigg, is standing for Parliament. Fortunately for Mr. Churchill, Sir James is not a Conservative. No politician, he has spent most of the last 30 years in the Civil Service, but when Mr. Churchill made him War Secretary last February he was obliged to become an M.P. Sir James decided...
Shrewd Political Warrior Churchill, knowing that a resounding Grigg victory would be viewed as a victory for himself and the Government, jumped right into the middle of the campaign with a message to Sir James-a message which was calculated to erase his indiscreet boast for the Conservatives. "I am glad to know," said Churchill, "that at this grave moment in our history you are appealing to the electorate ... as a nonparty member. I hope and believe that they will emphatically endorse your appointment as Secretary of State for War, realizing that to play party politics at such a time...
...take over until war's end. The Garvin-Astor split was not over him but over Winston Churchill, whom Garvin supports and the Astors don't like. Gar-vin's two "serious offenses" were outlined to him in a letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay in the Cabinet. The Astors, who despise Beaverbrook...
...Grigg & Llewellin. Outside the War Cabinet ranks, two of Winston Churchill's Cabinet changes were striking. He ousted War Secretary Captain David Margesson, onetime Tory, whip who got out the votes for the Chamberlain appeasement Government, replaced him with a man who thus became the only permanent civil servant in modern times to reach the Cabinet without first being elected to Parliament or admitted to the peerage-Sir Percy James Grigg, Permanent Under Secretary of State in the War Office. Solid, profane, 51-year-old "P. J." Grigg is known as "the toughest man in the Civil Service...