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...graduate of Eton and Oxford, a good London clubman (Bucks and Beefsteak), a wartime Grenadier Guardsman, an unsuccessful Tory candidate for the House of Commons, the son of a former colonial governor of Kenya and a peer of the realm, young (32) John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, might well be expected to defend with heart and hand the well-rooted principle of British conservatism. Instead, as the peppery and literate editor of the National and English Review (which he inherited along with his title from his father), Tory Lord Altrincham has aimed the barbs...
...Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
...James Grigg (British Secretary of State for War, 1942-45) has written, Eisenhower had to put up with "not one but two geniuses-Patton as well as Montgomery . . . [not] an entirely unalloyed blessing." Ike leaves no doubt that he valued them both. He also leaves no doubt that they could, each in his own way, be irritating. Each time Patton made a boner, Blood-and-Guts would come to Ike close to tears, and promise not to do it again. Writes Eisenhower: "His emotional range was very great and he lived at either one end or the other...
Misery's Nurses. The face of UNRRA in the displaced persons camps of Upper Bavaria was a smiling, 36-year-old Bronx Negro, Ernest C. Grigg, veteran of city and federal social-service agencies. He had won the confidence of these strange latter-day slaves, some of whom still resisted moving into larger camp quarters, preferring to crowd together in their old, small barracks for protection against the nightmares Hitler had left them. Grigg and his aides were slowly preparing them for a return to the world...
Distinguished Cadavers. This electoral El Alamein, which brought British socialists to power for the first time in 14 years, strewed Britain with distinguished political corpses. Among the Conservative cadavers were: First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken; Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery; Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War; Harold Macmillan, Secretary for Air; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary; Ernest Brown, Minister of Aircraft Production; Richard K. Law, Minister of Education; Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works; Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill...