Word: runciman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Runciman, Viscount of Doxford, 78, onetime Liberal M.P.,* President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis...
...Britain, rich in bases, is poor in some of the tools of international air transport. Hence the British keenly feel the need for international agreements which will equalize competitors at the postwar starting line. Said Walter Leslie Runciman, head of B.O.A.C.: "After the war you will have victors and neutrals feeling they must have some kind of air transport and if you are not careful you are going to have airline competition between governments with a disarmament-political complex. If that happens the Americans will have all the advantages because they have the planes and the money...
...Treasury as head of the British Civil Service. Munich-time Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir 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...
...Britain sends Runciman mission to Prague...