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Stephen M. Schwebel '50 was reelected chairman of the United Nations Council for the coming year, in elections held last night. Other officers named include Donald S. Connery '50 and W. Baird Bryant '50, vice-chairman; Peter Stafford '49, secretary; and Eliot Berkley...
...Some top Laborites would also be pinched. Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood are heavy cigaret smokers. Clement Attlee smokes a pipe. Sir Stafford Cripps, despite his dietary austerity, likes a pipe, a cigaret or a cigar...
Certainly the British, led at Geneva by Sir Stafford Cripps, have distinct reservations about freer trade. Once Britain grew one-third of her food, imported the rest. Now, says the Government, Britain must grow two-thirds, because (in the view of the planners Britons elected) the nation must buy less abroad if it is to stabilize its economy. Grain raised at home costs more, but the supply is more "secure...
...Smell of the Things." Later Churchill's hoarse voice, as he conferred with his front-bench colleagues, crashed into Sir Stafford Cripps's defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel...
...fairly obvious symbol of adolescent terrors and stirrings, is shot and killed in the end. Molly accidentally gets in the way of Ralph's shot, is killed at the same time-which is pretty dank symbolism and practically plain nonsense in any other terms. At her best Novelist Stafford handles the story well; but when she wants to be tragic she succeeds only in being melodramatic...