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Last week the British Government came to the rescue. Food Minister Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin announced that whiskey making would soon begin again-but for export only. Thirsty Britons gulped...
Chairman Dean Acheson and British Colonel John J. Llewellin demurred. UNRRA relief, said they, was only for areas liberated from the enemy. Bluntly retorted Interloper Singh: If relief is for war victims, how can the United Nations refuse aid to famine-stricken India, where war has stopped all rice imports from Burma?*The big nations, embarrassed but adamant, refused to reconsider...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
...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...
Prime Minister Churchill also ousted elegant Tory Minister of Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon. He was replaced by Colonel J. J. Llewellin, formerly one of Lord Beaverbrook's favorite hustlers in the Aircraft Production Ministry...