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Amid shouts, plump Arthur Creech-Jones, Colonial Secretary, tried to placate the members. He had no authority to grant a reprieve; but he would ask the King's representative, the Gold Coast's Governor. "Tell him!" boomed several M.P.s. Red-faced, Creech-Jones promised to send the Governor a telegram, advising him of the House's "very strong feeling in all quarters...
...Conferences. Britain's dilemma was currently in the lap of Colonial Minister Arthur Creech Jones, who last week held two important conferences in London. The first was with David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, who came to outline the grounds on which Jews would join the London Conference on Palestine Jan. 21. Ben-Gurion left the interview apparently well pleased with what he had been told...
...Creech Jones's second talk was with Lieut. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High Commissioner, who came to obtain permission for Britain's Palestine garrison (reinforced last week by hundreds of tanned desert veterans from Egypt) to launch an all-out offensive against Jewish extremists...
...London, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones called the terrorist attacks "abominations and cold-blooded outrages," warned that they would "postpone the day when a just and lasting settlement can be reached." Creech Jones said that Palestine authorities were "very alive" to the complexities of the problem. He did not say whether he meant Colonel Webb...
...went ailing, cantankerous War Minister Jack Lawson, aged Air Minister Viscount Stansgate, muddling Minister of Civil Aviation Lord Winster. Up went brilliant, young (36) Hector McNeil, Foreign Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, to be Minister of State; voluble Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, became Colonial Minister...