Word: swinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...
Shinwell took a merciless thumping in most newspapers (which were back to wartime four-page skimpiness).* Shinwell became a byword and a hissing. A music-hall comedian punned: "Be sure your Shinwell find you out." The House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately...
Visions of rebellion may have flashed temptingly through their lordships' minds. But too well they knew the retribution in store for them if they misbehaved; some particularly brash commoners had even murmured darkly of dissolving the upper chamber entirely. Declared Lord Swinton: "Lord Merthyr's is not a wise view to express in this century." He concluded by sternly advising Lord Merthyr to "revise his estimate of the comparative value of valor and discretion...
Sabotage and Damns. In Churchill's coalition Cabinet, Labor had acquiesced in the "chosen-instrument" policy of Tory Lord Swinton, then Civil Aviation Minister. He had recommended that three privately owned, State-backed companies operate 1) North American, British Commonwealth and Far Eastern services, 2) domestic and European routes, 3) routes to and from South America. Now, in junking this scheme, Swinton's successor, Lord Winster, apparently acted against his own better judgment, bowed to the party's Civil Aviation Committee. Last week, in the House of Lords, outraged Lord Swinton said that the new scheme...
...flying the North Atlantic (Montreal to Prestwick, Scotland) on Sept. 1. By getting a fast start on this rich route, it expects to corral enough traffic so that it can meet all comers, will not have to split with any. In the face of Canada's determination, Lord Swinton reluctantly agreed to competition between B.O.A.C. and Canada on the North Atlantic. But he won his point on the remainder of the Empire routes, such as Britain to India, South Africa and New Zealand. (T.C.A. may balk at pooling the Canada-Australia route.) On these the conference agreed to pool...