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Died. Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, first Baron of Peaslake, 89, longtime wheelhorse of Britain's Labor Party, who, as Secretary of State for India, played a major role in the negotiations that ended the British raj; in London. A well-heeled, cause-addicted Etonian, Lord Pethick-Lawrence first won the public eye by adopting both his wife's name (Pethick) and her cause (female suffrage), went to jail and technically bankrupt as a result, scored his most memorable political victory in 1923 when he became M.P. for West Leicester by defeating the Liberal candidate, Winston Churchill...
...Gets Pushed? At the London Airport, where they were greeted by Britain's aging, able Lord Pethick-Lawrence, local Indians were out before dawn in coal trucks, bicycles and buses. A policeman grumbled: "You can't tell by looking at these Indians who are the VIPs and who are the riffraff. One day you're arresting a fellow and the next he turns up as an important bloke. . . . You never can tell who to push around...
...colleagues on the Cabinet Committees are shy, pedantic Hugh Dalton, whose brilliant work as Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons...
...Britons whose statesmanship had produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...
Last week the three members of the British Cabinet Mission strove to force Indians to take the ultimate step-agreement on the constitution of an independent state. Much like a judge locking a hung jury in an uncomfortable room, Ministers Lord Pethick-Lawrence, A. V. Alexander and Sir Stafford Cripps prepared for a long Easter weekend in Kashmir's cool mountains with a message that when they returned "they hoped to find sufficient elements of agreement on which a settlement will be based...