Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then Prime Minister, today Lord President of the Council...
Churchill v. Baldwin. Not Ramsay MacDonald but Stanley Baldwin is leader of the Conservative Party which dominates the House of Commons, sustains the National Government. By what his friends call "masterly inaction" Mr. Baldwin has kept his Party from splitting internally, the natural and dangerous tendency of any too-great majority. Year after year die-hard Tories led by Winston Churchill have attacked moderate Tory Baldwin for his bumbling virtues, which seem to them defects. Masterly inaction, they say, is going to cost Britain the loss of India, and with India the Empire will be lost. Last year Mr. Churchill...
When a British workman bothers to find out who is Minister of Labor he discovers handsome, rich and epigrammatic young Major Oliver Stanley, second son of the huge-paunched, sporting 17th Earl of Derby. Major Stanley's poised and gracious mother is Bedchamber Woman to Her Majesty the Queen. His beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham...
...stockbroker can see clearly, as Major Stanley does, the major defect in Britain's Dole. It has been administered by petty local boards. These are under ceaseless pressure from the local jobless. Obviously it would be more scientific, and it should be cheaper, to have National Government administer the Dole on a uniform, nationwide basis...
Last year a decision to act on this premise was taken not by Major Stanley, then Minister of Transport, but by National Government themselves. They steamrollered through Parliament last summer the new Unemployment Act, easily flattening Labor opposition. Sir Henry Betterton, then Minister of Labor, became Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board, provided for in the new Act. Presumably he would take care of any vexatious problems which might arise. It was safe to slip in as Minister of Labor the admirable young stockbroker who is Derby's son and Londonderry's son-in-law. Sir Henry Betterton...