Word: swinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted on placing questions concerning its activities on the Order Paper...
...There were overlaps and underlaps," said Churchill; "I therefore asked Lord Swinton to undertake this task...
...failed in another job," interrupted Communist Willie Gallacher, referring to Lord Swinton's record of inactivity as Air Secretary under Baldwin and Chamberlain...
With a Rumanian trade delegation in London also being pressed for wheat by Viscount Swinton's new English Commercial Corporation, the Rumanians did not see how they could promise almost their entire export surplus to the Germans. Well, suggested Trade Negotiator Clodius, Rumania could demobilize 500,000 peasants and raise more. The Reich would even send 6,000 agricultural experts to Rumania to show the peasants...
...Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, has flayed the Keynes Plan as, "Good enough for Hitler's workers-but not good enough for ours." Lord Stamp, Economic Advisor to the Government, is still for "voluntary methods." Because good words have been said for the Plan by Lords Balfour, Swinton and Glentanar, the capricious London Daily Express paradoxically headlines, "Peers Of The Realm Unite! You Have Nothing To Gain But Keynes...