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Last week, T.U.C. leaders faced their government's key men in Sir Stafford Cripps's study in the House of Commons. Beside Cripps at his maroon-topped desk sat Ernest Bevin and Aneurin Bevan, both good union men. Ernie Bevin assumed the role in which he feels most at home: that of the table-thumping, tough-spoken bargainer. This time he was arguing for the employer's side, i.e., the government. When the T.U.C. leaders reiterated their demands, Bevin rumbled that it was up to the workers, through toil and discipline, to support their government...
...When sir Stafford Cripps announced devaluation in September, he spoke in terms of millions of people and billions of pounds and dollars. But people don't all come in millions; there are 16 people at Harvard now who have been affected considerably by Sir Stafford's decision...
...year of confusion and crisis, Sir Stafford Cripps emerges as the man who, for better or worse, did more than any other person to dislocate the economy of a major portion of the earth...
Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps last week declared flatly that Britain could not integrate her economy with Europe's "in any manner that would prejudice" Britain's responsibilities toward the Commonwealth and the sterling area. In plain English, Cripps was saying "count me out" to any further plans for economic union...
...office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...