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...Frame. Then Hoffman sat down to drive his points home to the men who could act on them. Britain was represented by Sir Stafford Cripps, Belgium by Premier Paul-Henri Spaak (who is also OEEC chairman), the other Marshall Plan countries by men of cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot...
...verdict was especially devastating in the light of the hopes that had been based on African development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...Psychologically, the British stiff upper lip is as imperturbable as ever; mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
...pamphlet, In This Faith We Live, has a foreword by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps and the signatures of a good cross-section of government M.P.s. Early in 1947 members of the new group began to meet informally to discuss ways & means of injecting more practical Christianity into politics. Last November they sent a letter to the Times which drew such a response that they decided to publish the present twelve-page statement of faith...