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Last month gaunt, radical Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons Sir Richard Stafford Cripps K.C., P.C., stepped down from his high office, accepted Prime Minister Churchill's invitation to head the Ministry of Aircraft Production (TIME, Nov. 30). London's editorial columns buzzed with conjecture...
...territories while England herself was desperately engaged in a struggle for her own independence. But bristling forth with the arrogance that was silent during dire emergency, the tweedy elements guarantee the world the Empire of old. They promise no large new concessions to British holding. The fall of Sir Stafford Cripps from a position of influence is more evidence of this...
Moslem League, to form a provisional Government which would be responsible to a legislature chosen in a new general election. All power would be transferred to the new Government except control over military operations, to which the formula of Sir Stafford Cripps's rejected proposals would apply...
...vote showed a surprising docility among Labor M.P.s, some of whom were rumored earlier to be urging Sir Stafford Cripps to resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous...
...Held the biggest follow-up yet of the famed Malvern Conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941): a mass meeting which jammed London's vast Albert Hall, and, even so, turned 8,000 away. The meeting was addressed by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, followed the full Malvern line. It drew Anglican prelates, Free Church and Eastern Orthodox leaders, Roman Catholic representatives, and stirred up a controversy that is still crackling briskly in British newspapers...