Word: margesson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Simon, now Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor, nursed through a garrulous House of Lords a bill empowering U.S. military forces in Britain to set up courts with criminal jurisdiction over American troops. Lord Runciman, Munich's advance man in Prague, had dropped out of sight. David (now Viscount) Margesson, then Tory Party ringmaster, now a General Electric director, admitted: "Public opinion demanded there should be changes." In Madrid Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary Munich supporter, welcomed at the British Embassy Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer, who that day also visited the German and Italian Ambassadors...
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...
...critics wondered, for example, about Arch-Tory War Secretary Captain H. D. R. Margesson, who had once been Neville Chamberlain's Jim Farley. They wondered about Arch-Tory Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, who had publicly declared that the time was not ripe for Britain to invade Europe. They wondered about Arch-Tory Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who had been accused of expressing the wish that the Germans and Russians would exterminate each other...
...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
...time away from air raids, with plenty of food, bathing beaches and cinemas, there was a stir of protest in London. The British Communist Party used the incident to claim that the Fascists rioted because they have friends in the Government, pointed a finger at War Secretary Captain David Margesson and Minister for Aircraft Production John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon...