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...best recent news of the U-boat war came last week from London. Britain's Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton reported that after a long upward curve Allied sea losses had decreased in July...
...Captain Lyttelton's maiden ministerial speech, on March 24, was so contradictory, so shocking in its bald admission of things undone that one M.P. demanded his impeachment. Last week M.P.s were still bored by the Minister's indecisive presentation, but they perked up their ears at what...
Left-wing view is that, while the Government has made some concessions to radical thought, it keeps control in the hands of men it can trust. Increasingly such trust has been centered in a Churchillian inner group ("The Club"), of which Captain Lyttelton is a representative member...
...Tall, toothy, socially charming Captain Lyttelton has oversize shoulders and an expanding paunch which he overemphasizes by wearing double-breasted waistcoats. His mother is a Dame of the British Empire. His father was a Cabinet minister. After Eton young Lyttelton went to Cambridge. He married Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of the tenth Duke of Leeds. As an Empire businessman trained in London's City, Captain Lyttelton fathered the world tin cartel, became managing director of giant British Metal Corp...
Drafted, willingly, into political life at 46, Captain Lyttelton was first Metals Controller, moved through chairmanship of the Board of Trade to Production Minister. Because Britain needed men of ability and know-how, he was talked of as a progressive Tory candidate for Prime Minister. He spoke progressively, acted like a hard hitter. But last week Lyttelton's career was stalling. He had not yet shown those qualities-whatever they are-that make an Englishman love a Tory...