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Britain's Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones also sat in on the meeting, to represent the interests of dollar-earning Malaya. Explained one Whitehaller: "That mumbling sound you hear is Creech Jones as representative of the British government trying to persuade himself as representative of Malaya that Malaya should cut its imports. It will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Backs to the Wall | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

After a leisurely trip on a frigate and a banana boat, he turned up in London. "Poor little Creech Jones," the Daily Express quoted him as saying, "he's had a bad time . . . Acted like a fool. I will tell him a thing or two when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sympathetic Governor | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones last week refused to say how the meeting had gone. But West Indian union leaders voiced the feeling of the natives. "Violence will break out among our people," said one, "if he does not return. Lord Baldwin is a sympathetic governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sympathetic Governor | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Continuing War | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...British last week repeated their determination to take no responsibility for ruling Palestine, or even for protecting the U.N. Commission members, after mid-May. Last week Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones warned the Security Council that after that date Palestine will probably be "disorganized, disintegrated, and even more violent and disrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Even More Disrupted | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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