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...once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
Tory Leader Winston Churchill asked his followers to abstain from voting, but 71 Conservatives insisted on voting against the bill. They were joined by a number of Laborites, including vitriolic Jennie Lee, wife of Housing Minister Aneurin Bevan, and redheaded Barbara Castle, parliamentary secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps...
...after a quarter-century of litigation involving such eminent British barristers as Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Chancellor Jowitt, the case is being retried in a Palestine district court...
Unless Minister of Health Aneurin Bevin mended his ways, Churchill growled, "he would be as great a curse to this country in time of peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war." He called vegetarian Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade "a national disaster," cried that "these ethereal beings [vegetarians] do produce a very great volume of intellectual output with a minimum of working costs in fuel...
...Stafford Cripps blueprinted another phase of Labor's plan. Tripartite committees, with management, labor and public members, will shape the policies by which British industries will live in home and world markets. Already, the Board of Trade president crowed, such groups are getting to work in the boot and shoe, hosiery, furniture, pottery and cotton industries...