Word: staffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor leaders "because none of them seems to have the stuff of leadership in him."* But inside the Party a brisk battle to capture Labor's executive control from paunchy, do-nothing "Uncle Arthur" Henderson and doddering "Old George" Lansbury is being waged by brisk and daring Sir Stafford Cripps, an avowed disciple in Britain of the methods of President Roosevelt. When the President in effect tore up the gold clause in U. S. obligations, Sir Stafford turned the implications of this move into a popular argument that the Empire should repudiate its War debt...
...debacle just behind them they issue a declaration of faith in Democracy rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions of the left wing who plumped for a frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series...
British Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps opened the trial by declaring, "It has been suggested that the fire was a scheme put forward by the National Socialists themselves. In view of the world-wide importance of the trial to take place at Leipzig, and of its political surroundings, the committee feels that some means should be adopted for bringing together the evidence available outside Germany and for bringing it before the world for criticism and enlightenment...
...STAFFORD FERRAR POTTER...
...convert. This premium, Mr. Chamberlain told the House of Commons, would be paid because of His Majesty's Government's "moral obligation" to compensate holders of the bonds injured by the U. S. Congress' cancellation of their "gold clause." Up from a Labor bench popped Sir Stafford Cripps. "This is the first time," he shouted, "that the Government have sought to convince themselves by ingenious arguments that we ought to pay more than we owe! If the Exchequer is going to be generous, I suggest that there are many worthier recipients of charity-such as the unemployed...