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...Tripartite Plan for Industry devised by the Board of Trade's Sir Stafford Cripps. It would place all industries under the joint management of employers, employes, Government representatives. Employers will fight Cripps control tooth & nail...
...Cabinet meeting, Henry Wallace and others cited scientific opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...
Proconsul & Politicians. Lord Wavell had assumed office at one of the worst moments in British-Indian relations. Sir Stafford Cripps' mission had failed. The Indian leaders had rejected his proposals for self-government after the war, demanded immediate independence. Gandhi urged Indians to sabotage Britain's war effort. Singapore had fallen and the Japanese were streaming through Thailand and Burma. Wavell went patiently about his task of winning the confidence of the Indian leaders. He began with drastic, effective measures to curb the famine sweeping Bengal. It was an encouraging start...
...main constitutional position remains ... as it .was." London still stood by the postwar self-government proposals brought to India by Sir Stafford Cripps in 1942, and roundly turned down by India's fractious factions...
...Stafford Cripps, British Minister of Aircraft Production, last week announced an order for 50,000 temporary, relatively cheap aluminum houses to shelter some of Great Britain's bombed-out millions. The construction of these new type houses will keep Britain's light alloys industries, its war expanded plane factories and its skilled army of aluminum workers busily occupied...