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LONDON--Minister of Food John Strachey announced today that bread and flour will be rationed throughout the United Kingdom for the first time in history. Rationing will begin July...
Plumbing Politics. A less talented and engaging figure might not have survived Strachey's political shiftings. Son of John St. Loe Strachey, noted Tory editor of The Spectator, he was schooled at Eton and Oxford, became one of Labor's "wild young men" in the '20s. Breaking violently away in 1931, young John was chief lieutenant for Sir Oswald Mosley when Mosley was not quite a fascist...
...sympathies landed him in Ellis Island for two weeks in 1938. In white tie & tails the suave, beak-nosed Strachey (6 ft. 2 in.) enthralled U.S. audiences. But Communist policy in 1939 was too much for Strachey. He broke with them and did manful penance until the Laborites welcomed him home...
...John Strachey is already touted as a future Prime Minister. Last week a Tory opponent predicted: "He will stand or fall by how he tackles this. But it is my bet that he will stand...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...