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Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
...miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...
...when he broke through at El Alamein, trucks of General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell's service of supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...
...allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
...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 Sea Lord...