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Against the dragon, Hunger, strode a new knight last week. Out as Food Minister went Sir Ben Smith, a pottering ex-cabby; in came a more dashing champion, glamorous, aristocratic Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. Of all Labor's hopefuls his was the shiniest armor and the sharpest lance. Impressive showings in the House as Under Secretary for Air had gained John Strachey's advancement to "the stickiest job in the Government...
...Strachey had less than a day to clear his desk at the Air Ministry, before plunging into the welter of technical problems involved in British Labor's self-proclaimed world leadership against hunger. In a candid, highly' successful press conference, he mended Sir Ben's bad press relations by promising full advance information on food policies. Then he announced importations of a greater variety of foodstuffs, including long missed apples and oranges. Three days after taking office, Strachey made a brilliant speech in the House of Commons. "Famine, like peace, is indivisible . . ." he said. "This nation will...
...Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey's witty, popular Elizabeth and Essex...
...troubled days of peace to come, the Church fails to be this conscience, there will be at first only deepening doldrums in what Lytton Strachey once called "the vast calm waters of Christian thought...
This is Queen Victoria's eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max's brisk, elegiac tribute (Lytton Strachey; Knopf; $1) to his late great friend was published in the U.S. It was also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship...