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While Britain has banned the export of war materials to Red China, it has left the door wide open for trade with Red Russia. Board of Trade President Sir Hartley Shawcross told the House of Commons last week that in the first four months of 1951 Britain sent to Soviet countries $1,091,000 worth of electrical generators, 410 tons of mining machinery and 23,596 tons of raw rubber...
Prime Minister Attlee's Labor government, whose ministers have been instructed not to criticize the U.S., last week: ¶ Prohibited further exports of rubber to Communist China (but not to Russia). President of the Board of Trade Sir Hartley Shawcross declared that China had already bought so much rubber this year "that her civilian needs can be regarded as satisfied for the current year." ¶Supported the U.S. proposal, adopted this week by the U.N. Additional Measures Committee, for a general embargo on shipments of arms and war-essential materials to Red China...
...London, Sir Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nürnberg war crimes trials, and new President of the British Board of Trade, delivered a judgment on feminine fashions: "No woman in Britain should have so many clothes that she can ask her husband, 'What shall I wear tonight?' " Furthermore, he added, "the only clothes suitable for the wife of any member of the Government obviously are sackcloth and ashes nowadays...
...Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, succeeding Harold Wilson; 49; handsome, suave lawyer; Dulwich College (in London), London School of Economics, University of Geneva; started electioneering for the Labor Party at 16; called to the bar in 1925; senior law lecturer, Liverpool University, 1927-34; served on government commissions (coal-mining inquiry, air-raid defense, etc.); chief British prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials; elected to Parliament, 1945; Attorney General...
...Frank Soskice, Attorney General, succeeding Shawcross; 48; soft-voiced, able lawyer; Balliol College, Oxford; called to the bar, 1926; specialized in commercial law; with Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (East Africa and Middle East) in World War II, ended his service as major in intelligence; elected to Parliament, 1945; helped prepare indictments for Nurnberg trials; Solicitor General (second law officer to the Crown), 1945-51; a close personal friend of Attlee...