Word: sirred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps last week declared flatly that Britain could not integrate her economy with Europe's "in any manner that would prejudice" Britain's responsibilities toward the Commonwealth and the sterling area. In plain English, Cripps was saying "count me out" to any further plans for economic union...
What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This...