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...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...
...Leaving Moscow was high-domed, bespectacled Sir Stafford Cripps, 52, able leftist lawyer. When he was expelled from the Labor Party in 1939 for trying to form a united front with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet...
...club song of London's 18th Century Anacreontic Society. Called To Anacrcon in Heaven, it was written by John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. Author Francis Scott Key. although believed to be tone-deaf, was apparently familiar with the original song. Congress, tone-deaf to such entreaties as the tune's unsingability as well as its convivial origins, made the anthem official...
...Zealand Government proposes to speed its war effort by standardizing certain articles of clothing. The hazards of such a plan were suggested last week by Lawyer G. M. Stafford of Sydney, Australia, in the interest of his profession...
...been really right about World War II is Sir Richard Stafford Cripps. From the starting gun, he maintained that Britain's interest and Russia's were the same. In June 1940 the British Foreign Office sent him as Ambassador to Moscow, apparently as the easiest way to hush him up. Last week he addressed a paean to the Russian people, which if it was as right as his record, was good news. Of Hitler's invasion of Russia...