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...been expedient, when the Labor Government was frittering away the U.S. loan, to minimize Sir Stafford Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to the British people. It was a grim score...
Quietly Sir Stafford outlined the bleakest prospect yet conceded by a Labor Minister-a revolution in Britain's internal economy. In cold figures and concrete decisions, he laid down a program for 152 British industries: "Export...
...Congressmen cross-examined Food Minister John Strachey and were a little annoyed by his air of supercilious serenity. They were more impressed by Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the Board of Trade. Cripps said that Britain was bracing itself to get along without another U.S. dime, if necessary...
...born Mrs. Snow was editor of the American Vogue when Richard Berlin, boss of Hearst magazines, lured her away in 1932. (Today Harper's, like Town & Country, gets only the gentlest Hearstian supervision.) She and her fiction editors have bought and plugged such bylines as Virginia Woolf, Jean Stafford, Eudora Welty, Christopher Isherwood, Anna Kavan and Colette...
...Paris flew Sir Stafford Cripps for a conference with U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton on the leftovers of the U.S. loan. The shocking fact: if Britain keeps withdrawing funds at the present rate, nothing will be left by September. Two of the loan's agreements add to the-dollar drain: 1) the "nondiscrimination" clause, which forces the British to buy goods in the U.S., for dollars, which they might get elsewhere more expensively but for pounds; 2) the "sterling convertibility" clause, which forces the British to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners...