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...bills and plans for the socialization of Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison triumphantly announced more steps toward the nationalization of British industries. He added Britain...
Communist Willie Gallacher charged up beside her, along with Arthur Greenwood's Socialists and a heel-kicking bloc of young Tories led by Captain Quintin Hogg. Ruffled Minister Butler wagged a schoolmasterish finger, waved aloft a copy of his bill, cried: a vote for. equal pay will be a vote against "the interests of this great reform," a vote "against the Government...
...Conservative, pro-Chamberlain candidate was the Hon. Quintin McGarel Hogg, 31, making his political debut. Son & heir of the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
Cabinet Shifts. Viscount Hailsham gave out some time ago that once his son the Hon. Quintin Hogg was elected he would retire from public office. This week Lord Hailsham was succeeded as Lord President of the Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely...
...clerk at the U. S. War Department last week administered an oath of office to a short but not swart, buck-toothed Spaniard. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, had picked last spring this new man to be Philippine Resident Commissioner at Washington, succeeding banjo-eyed Politician Quintin Paredes. The new man's name, Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, is virtually the Philippine equivalent of Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt...