Word: herwald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While members interrupted the debate with cries of "Snobbery!" the bill was brought out in the House of Commons for its third and final reading. It was defended by President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham, an old school tie from Uppingham. Said he: "There is no intention of bolstering up decaying institutions. ... If this measure of self-help were refused, there would be a risk of losing ... a great national inheritance...
...Children Still in the Danger Areas?" Six hundred door-to-door canvassers drank thousands of cups of tea in thousands of kitchens, patiently explained reasons for evacuation. All told, about 40,000 more children were sent away, but the rest would not go. President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham threw up his hands, admitted: "Compulsory evacuation of school children is politically and socially impossible...
...Board of Education's 39-year-old President, Earl De La Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...
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