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...could walk was in the House of Commons. Latecomers stood toe to heel in the back of the chamber. On Labor's front bench, little Clem Attlee, more inconspicuous than ever, was squeezed in between Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps strode briskly into a crowded House of Commons one afternoon last week to read the Labor government's budget for 1950-51. Boyishly, Cripps slapped his battered red leather dispatch case onto the table, grinned as he began a long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads...
Actually, Sir Stafford's budget contained small cause for cheer. There were minor income-tax cuts. The purchase tax on higher-priced (over ?1,000) autos was cut from 66⅔% to 33⅓%. The tax on gasoline was boosted nine pence a gallon. Additional taxes were imposed on bookmakers, trucks and company bonuses to executives. Teetotaler Cripps had a bit of cheer for many Britons: he could not cut the tax on beer, but he could promise better beer at the same price. This year's beer, said Sir Stafford, would be 10% stronger than before...
...Stafford's new budget was just more of the old austerity...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, whose official utterances are usually the occasion for deep parliamentary gloom, last week brought a note of cheer to the House of Commons. During the first three months of 1950, Cripps reported, Britain and the rest of the sterling area had chalked up a dollar surplus of $40 million more than ECAid; it was the first time since war's end that the sterling area had been out of the red, and few M.P.s could repress their, cheers...