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...support. No attempt will be made to give industries already nationalized back to private owners, but there will be no more socialization and private enterprise will be given encouragement. The Tory campaign has emphasized that only American aid has saved the country from unemployment, a point on which Sir Stafford Cripps, Labor's Chancellor of the Exchequer, concurs...
Married. Jean Stafford, 34, novelist (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) ; and Oliver Jensen, 35, LIFE staff writer; both for the second time (her first husband was Poet Robert Lowell); in Manhattan...
...figurehead. In actual power over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These faculties were all-important as the Labor Party walked a tightrope with militant socialism on its left and a wary middle class...
...TIME blushes; the quotation came from a cable which was garbled in transmission, making it appear that the answer was given by Sir Stafford himself...
...STRANGE ERROR CREPT INTO YOUR REPORT OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS'S SERMON IN ST. PAUL'S [TIME, JAN. 16]. ACCORDING TO STORY ["VOICES IN THE EXCHEQUER"], NEWSMAN ASKED ABOUT ABSURD RUMOR THAT CRIPPS HEARS DIVINE VOICES, AND CRIPPS REPLIED...