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...duty of the British nursery governess is to wake the children from their naps. Last week, with Economic Dictator Sir Stafford Cripps bending sternly yet benignly over it, Britain was awake. It was resentful, expectant and confused, but, undeniably, it stirred...
Villagers of Filkins, in the lush green Cotswolds, where Cripps was the local squire, tell a significant story of his earlier days there. Cripps heard that a shiftless villager called Old Joe was in debt. He went to see him. "Nice little house you have here," said Sir Stafford. "You don't want to sell...
...brother, Colonel The Hon. F. H. Cripps, wrote recently: "When Stafford was quite young he was very fond of giving advice to the elder members of his family. This earned him the nickname of 'Dad,' which still sticks to him at home...
...rate of ?1 a week. " 'E knew," explained a villager, "Old Joe would only blue the lot if 'e 'ad it all at once-so 'e rations 'im. Well, Old Joe 'adn't got no choice really. But although Sir Stafford cleared 'is debts for 'im, and gave 'im ?100 'e needn't 'ave, Old Joe 'asn't got a good word to say for Sir Stafford...
...died when he was four) that her children should be "undogmatic and unsectarian Christians, charitable to all churches and sects." He came of a long line of British squires who, from the time of Willmus Cripps in the 12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...