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...Rarely that It Pleases." "It is essential," Sir Stafford Cripps told the House sternly, "that he [Philip] should have an adequate income . . .not only to provide for his personal staff, charities, and matters of that kind . . . but also that he may enjoy a proper degree of independence. The figure of ?10,000 . . . is customary for the younger.son of a king." Sir Stafford doubted that Britons would want to economize on royalty. One might as well, he concluded, suggest dispensing with the royal horses because "they Cost ?15,000 or whatever it is . . . but I venture to think if someone were...
...action acknowledged that the straitened British would have to keep their reimposed exchange controls awhile. In an exchange of letters between London and Washington, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps promised to lift currency controls "at the earliest possible time." (Few observers expect this time to arrive in the next two years.) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder told Sir Stafford that the $400 million would help Britain "to maintain its present austerity program...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...
...many letters did you get commenting on the terrific likeness of your cover painting of Sir Stafford Cripps [TIME, Nov. 10] and our own late President Wilson...
Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...