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...shift showed that the trade unionists had lost and the technocrats had won. Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just eclipsed Herbert Morrison as the No. 1 economic wizard, will have men of the "manager" rather than the "leader" type around him. Apparently, Attlee had decided that Britain's workers would remain politically loyal to the Labor Party even if some of their own men were removed from key spots...
...Stafford Cripps's bony hands, Prime Minister Attlee this week entrusted Britain's economic fate. His official title was Minister of Economic Affairs. In reality, Sir Stafford had become Britain's economic dictator...
...shorter the skirt the better," was the feeling of shortage-minded Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Minister of Economic Affairs. But he added quickly that, of course, "there must be some limits...
Many people found it hard to believe that the decision lay with this small, insignificant and, in some respects, inadequate man. Would not the giants of his party, Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant...
...falling-and it will fall a lot more. Britain's industries must do without vitally needed new machinery -but they must produce more than ever. Britain's people must do without nearly everything they make at home so that it can be sold abroad. Again & again, Sir Stafford warned industry's owners and managers that if they do not do what they are told, the Government will make them do it. British workers must stop slacking on the job. If workers are lacking in basic industry, labor conscription, though the Labor Government shrinks from the thought, will...