Word: wilkinson
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...aspect which the committee would no doubt probe thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...
...London, men & women of 43 United Nations gathered to discuss how education could serve peace. They did not even hope to find all the answers, but they had some modest ambitions. They heard their presiding officer, Britain's fiery little Minister of Education "Red Ellen" Wilkinson, suggest that if England and France could just agree on how to describe the Battle of Waterloo in their history books, it would help. They heard Clement Attlee's worthy bromides: "In your hands rests here and now the opportunity of establishing a common front against ignorance...
...Ellen Wilkinson, Britain's Minister of Education, was lecturing in English at a gathering of school principals in Berlin. Said she: "In Britain we have three main political parties: Conservatives, Liberals and Socialists. The Socialists are now in power." Her German interpreter translated: "In Britain we have three main political parties: Conservatives, Liberals, and National Socialists. The National Socialists are now in power...
...Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson, 54. Since 1935, "Red Ellen" has represented Jarrow, England's poverty-stricken shipbuilding center. In 1931 she led the Hunger March from Scotland to Westminster, often slept under haystacks and peeled potatoes by the wayside...
Other Laborites who might be offered posts when Prime Minister Attlee completes his Cabinet: Aneurin Bevan, fiery ex-miner, one of Labor's extreme left wing; Ellen Wilkinson, fiery professional trade-union organizer; Michael Foot (Guilty Men), London Daily Herald columnist and the party's ablest pamphleteer; Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...