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...Leaving Moscow was high-domed, bespectacled Sir Stafford Cripps, 52, able leftist lawyer. When he was expelled from the Labor Party in 1939 for trying to form a united front with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet...
Martinez is a vegetarian, and what is even rarer in Latin America, a teetotaler...
...Churchill were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, First...
...determined to live in that world, from then on. He read Milton through three times in three months. He found William Morris, whom he still regards as "the one sensible man of modern times." Under Shelley's influence he became a vegetarian. Under the influence of everything in sight he began to try his hand at writing...
...Greenwood, and Proletarians Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. Another irritation is the distrust of both these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...