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This truth was uppermost in the minds of 650 representatives of 5,000,000 British organized workers when they gathered last week in Southport's hoary Town Hall for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power...
While in France the once mighty Left opposition devoted its annual convention almost exclusively to family quarrels last week, the British Left was scarcely less ineffectual. Biggest issue at the Labor Party Congress at Southport was the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps, tall, thin, wealthy, inconsistent, indiscreet ''Red Squire" of Filkins, Labor's ablest parliamentary debater and leader of Labor's intellectual leftwing. Last January Sir Stafford proposed a Popular Front of Laborites, Communists, Liberals, anti-Chamberlain Conservatives, broke Party discipline when he sent out his proposals to Labor Party offices after Labor's executive...
Promptly blowing Sir Stafford's brains out of the Party, the executive committee defended itself by attacking the Popular Front, largely quoting from Sir Stafford's own writing on the subject during the six years he too had been opposed. It forbade him to appear before the Southport Congress. His supporters began to backslide; two in the House of Commons backed down; another resigned from his paper; four were expelled before the Congress opened. But the Congress overruled the executive, let Sir Stafford speak. Soon the Red Squire joined the retreat at full stride, humbly asked for reinstatement...
...such criticisms Pilots Merrill & Lambie presently made the best answer-another faultless crossing of the Atlantic. Laden with photographs of the Coronation, 15,000 "covers" and stamps for philatelists, they took off from Southport in his Wasp-motored Lockheed Electro. last week three days after reaching Croydon. Flying blind most of the way over the ocean, Merrill & Lambie dropped down at Squantum, Mass., to check their gas supply, immediately dashed on to Floyd Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American...
...messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire (see p. 23) with sets of Coronation prints, 46 in each. Among those waiting for them were TIME and LIFE who took one set with exclusive magazine rights (see p. 17). The New York Times and the Hearstpapers took other sets...