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Most vigorously intellectual of U. S. Protestant religious weeklies, The Christian Century is edited by tall, quiet, Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, has been kept rigorously nondenominational, vigorously liberal. To The Christian Century neither candidate is perfect-"black and white on one side and white and black on the other"-and it does not oppose President Roosevelt's re-election on the grounds of venerable tradition...
Into Sir John's old job went weak-eyed, strong-willed Herbert Morrison, a Laborite who knew London's problems from having lived in its slums and having battled to get rid of them while running the London County Council. Succeeding Morrison in the key post of Minister of Supply was cold, shrewd Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, who moved up from Presidency of the Board of Trade. Into the Board of Trade went handsomely mustached Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who, before the war, was managing director...
...seats). Smart Winston Churchill knew that his only chance to win the war lay in the enthusiastic support of the working classes. Backed by press and public, with no real opposition from the abdicating ruling class, he brought forward such men as Minister of Supply Herbert Stanley Morrison, longtime Laborite Leader of the London County Council and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, the horny-handed General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The British public, sick of the leadership that had produced Munich and bumbled through eight months of war, took these men to its heart, became...
...Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its privileges for the sake of national rearmament. Big business was in no mood to foot the rearmament bill. Winston Churchill might rave and rumble about the Nazi danger. But the Labor Party's Major Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison (now Minister of Supply) struck more popular poses as humanitarians, League of Nations advocates, good Europeans. Meanwhile the Conservative Party ran the Government, held the slippery balance of power by buttering wishful pacifist hopes...
Appeal. Minister of Supply Herbert Stanley Morrison addressed an appeal to the U. S. He said that though Germany had vastly increased her war resources by her conquests to date (steel capacity, for example, up from 31,000,000 tons a year to 42,000,000 tons) Great Britain could yet survive if the U. S. would help, adding 52,000,000 tons of steel, for instance, to Britain's potential 19,000,000 tons. Cried Minister Morrison as the Battle of Britain began crashing in earnest over the one great free land left in Europe...