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Attlee noted that the "tide of nationalism is running very fast in India," that it has spread even to "those wonderful soldiers" who are the mainstay of British forces overseas. He emphasized that the new ministerial mission-Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Pethick-Lawrence and A. V. Alexander-would have "as free a hand as possible" to make important decisions on the spot. "This is the time, emphatically, for very definite and clear action...
Pakistan or War? Last week London announced that three Cabinet ministers-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade-would go to India to repeat and perhaps to better Cripps's 1942 efforts to reach an agreement with Hindus and Moslems on dominion status for India...
...Stafford Cripps, rigidly respectable president of Britain's Board of Trade, who looks like a cross between Woodrow Wilson and an old maid, plumped for more public aid to private romance. "Love in a cottage is all very well," he observed, "if the roof doesn't leak." Mere muddling-through in marriage, said he, is the result of unlettered prudery. "We have been half-ashamed of our divinely created animal instincts...
...realized that in the past six months the U.S. program of postwar aid to its allies had lost ground. But the informed consensus was not yet ready to agree with the gloomy hunch of Britain's Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps. Last week at Birmingham he said: "It looks as though Congress might turn down the loan...
Smith wanted the pottery industry nationalized and expanded. Sir Stafford Cripps refused, ordered Britons to eat off white (austerity) dinnerware and export all fancy ware. In a huff, Smith resigned his post...