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...socialists met in Edinburgh. The Ramsay MacDonald government had collapsed. Their movement was wasted by feuds, weighted by inertia; socialism in Britain was moribund. Something had to be done. In desperation they decided to start a tuppenny weekly. To get it going, people like Stafford Cripps, Aneurin Bevan, Ellen Wilkinson, George Russell Strauss and John Strachey chipped in ?10 apiece to buy stock...
...balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert Morrison, Food Minister John Strachey and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, all wearing red carnations...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer has created a minor sensation; erudite, aristocratic ex-Communist John Strachey, Labor's new Food Minister; ailing, aging (74) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India; austere theoretician Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; redhaired, demonstrative Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, who used to be Morrison's Parliamentary Secretary. Bellicose Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is in charge of housing (only one out of five new houses may be privately built), has promised bombed-out Britons 200,000 homes by the end of the year...
Arthur William Wilkinson...
...declared Priestley, "but to offer this dreary, dirty rubbish ... is an insult to our nation." Minister Wilkinson damned such "appealing . . . to the lower side of human nature," urged on schoolgirls (as future mothers and teachers) the goal of ending "things like that." The shocker: a new cinema version of Getting Gertie's Garter...