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...Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade and Production Minister, rose elegantly. Rubber, he said, would be released for nipples, but "we cannot adopt the same policy for soothers [pacifiers]." The Minister explained: "Soothers are a means of deception to which, in view of the imminence of the general election, the Government cannot lend themselves...
This homely incident was a prelude to Britain's first important step in reconversion. Last week, the Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton, businesslike new head of the Production Ministry and Board of Trade in the new Churchill Cabinet, allocated 36 more Government war factories for civilian production-a total of 16 million square feet so allotted in the last month. Britain was in a hurry, and with reason...
...British Ambassador to the U.S. went to the White House last week for his first visit since Minister Lyttelton made the provoking statement that the U.S. had provoked Japan into war-a statement that had drawn roars of wrath from Cordell Hull and other Administration stalwarts (TIME, July...
...Election Year." Last week the pebbles in Minister Lyttelton's mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei...
Washington newsmen soon pointed out that Minister Lyttelton had bulled amid some of the most delicate china of Term IV strategists. For more than two years critics of the Roosevelt Administration have insisted that the President must have known his policy toward Japan would lead to war; and that therefore he had no excuse either for his campaign statements that his policy meant peace or for the unpreparedness at Pearl Harbor. Minister Lyttelton's remarks paraphrased the basis for such a charge...