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...bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George...
Foresighted, tradewise Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, last week put in a bid for postwar British trade with booming Brazil. He recognized what many a U.S. trader with Latin America has not yet realized: that Latin America's larger republics are growing up industrially, that in the postwar world concessions must be made to their development. Said Lyttelton...
...Toryism asks Britons to entrust their future, as they had entrusted their great past, to individualism and private enterprise. Last week Tory Oliver Lyttelton, onetime metals magnate and now Minister of Production, told the Aldershot Conservative Assn.: "The great periods of our history were nearly always associated with an outstanding individual and not with a political system. We think of Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Francis Drake, or Marlborough, Pitt and Nelson and of the Duke of Wellington; and it is on the ability to keep alive the spirit of adventure and to inject into public opinion new, fanciful and unorthodox...
Captain Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, merely said, as he prepared to return to London, that he had taken from the White House "a more complete agreement" on production and Lend-Lease. Actually, the new understanding meant that U.S. strategy, which had been knocked into a cocked hat at Pearl Harbor, could now look far into the future...
...year marked by Pearl Harbor, the siege of Stalingrad and the British defeat in Africa in June, the Army & Navy had never dared conform. They tried to build every kind of materiel, expanded as fast as they could outfit the men, often hoarded equipment. If the agreement that Oliver Lyttelton got is really a matter of practice this time, Pearl Harbor is indeed a long way behind...