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...test was significant. Mobilized against the bill was a large block of Tories led by a titled hotel expert, Sir Douglas Hacking, who is also a potent behind-scenes figure in the Conservative Party. Beveridge Plan supporters felt that the Tories were simply voicing their traditional conservatism. Said Sir Stafford Cripps's leftist Tribune: "The British people will have only themselves to blame if they ignore the fact that the old ruling class are as reactionary as ever...
...Eden? In the past year's Gallup polls in Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...
Britain's new Minister of Aircraft Production, socialistic Sir Stafford Cripps, last week took control of a big aircraft factory near London and installed a new manager. An editorial in Labor's Daily Herald showed how it could happen there...
...result was that Sir Stafford Cripps . . . appointed a new managing director [Steelman George Ernest Marden] with full powers, whom he personally introduced to the Joint Production Committee, and that he has promised to see the workers again two months hence if they still think that the organization of the factory is unsound...
Said the usually staid Morning Post: "Sir Stafford Cripps, known abroad as Sir Scrapps, among his friends as Scrappy, among his opponents as Stiffy, and among an ungrateful proletariat as Gripes, is an embryo-dictator...