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	Stafford Cripps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (April 24, 1889 - April 21, 1952), British Labour politician, was born in London, the son of a Conservative member of the House of Commons who late in life, as Lord Parmoor, joined the Labour Party.
		Cripps was an early advocate of a United Front against the rising threat of fascism.
		In 1939, however, Cripps was expelled from the Labour Party for his advocacy of a Popular Front with the communists and anti-appeasement Liberals and Tories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stafford_Cripps (1002 words)

	Sir Stafford Cripps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Winston Churchill appointed (1940) him ambassador to the Soviet Union and, on Cripps's return to England in 1942, made him lord privy seal and leader of the House of Commons.
		In 1945, Cripps was readmitted to the Labour party and appointed president of the Board of Trade in the new Labour government.
		In 1947, Cripps was appointed to the newly created office of minister of economic affairs and within the same year became, in addition, chancellor of the exchequer.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0814048.html (301 words)

	Stafford Cripps -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cripps was an early advocate of a (A multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban) United Front against the rising threat of (A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)) fascism.
		In 1939, however, Cripps was expelled from the Labour Party for his advocacy of a (A leftist coalition organized against a common opponent) Popular Front with the communists and anti-appeasement Liberals and Tories.
		Cripps increased taxes and forced a reduction in consumption in an effort to boost exports and stabilise the (The basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence) Pound Sterling so that Britain could trade its way out of its crisis.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stafford_cripps.htm (963 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sir Geoffrey Wilson
		Sir Geoffrey Wilson, who died on Sunday aged 94, was a lawyer, civil servant and wartime diplomat who became vice-president of the World Bank, chairman of the Race Relations Board and chairman of Oxfam.
		A Quaker by upbringing and a protege of the Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps, Geoffrey Wilson was committed to the quest for a fairer world, whether in promoting the development of poorer countries or in opposing racial injustice.
		Cripps, appearing for the North Wales Miners' Association, triumphantly proved wrongdoing on the part of the mine's managers by the use of complex scientific evidence, reduced by Wilson to a series of graphs and charts.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/13/db1301.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/13/ixportal.html (1241 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		At the same time, one of Sir Stafford's most remarkable gifts was his absolute belief that whatever position he took was the right one, up until the point at which he changed his mind.
		Cripps could never quite be trusted by Churchill, but he had a unique ability to inspire the faith of others.
		Cripps was lucky with the first half his chancellorship, as he appeared to get to grips with the economy, and unlucky with the second, as the position worsened, forcing a massive devaluation in 1949, which he took as a personal defeat.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4397374,00.html (1306 words)

	Richard Stafford Cripps
		A Christian Socialist and member of the Labour Party, Cripps was elected to the House of Commons in 1931 at a by-election in East Bristol.
		Sir Stafford Cripps has long been recognised as the ablest man in the British socialist movement, and he is respected for his absolute integrity even by those who are at the opposite pole from him politically.
		Cripps was brash enough to give his views on what was wrong with the conduct of the war to those of his colleagues who were prepared to listen, and then to argue with Churchill on the changes which ought to be made.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUcripps.htm (1837 words)

	Clement Attlee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		November 1947 - Sir Stafford Cripps succeeds Hugh Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		October 1950: Hugh Gaitskell succeeds Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		Sir Hartley Shawcross succeeds Harold Wilson (resigned) as President of the Board of Trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clement_Attlee (1529 words)

	Cripps and India's Partition-II
		Cripps and Pethick-Lawrence - and Alexander too, it should not be forgotten - had refrained from exposing this ambiguity, treating it as a practical problem to be resolved by the increasing momentum of an actual transfer of power.
		Clarke is unfairly dismissive of Wavell's distrust of Cripps.
		Cripps told him belatedly that "the League's interpretation was in fact that intended by the Cabinet Delegation".
	www.flonnet.com /fl1916/19160820.htm (2455 words)

	Stafford Cripps
		Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (April 24, 1889 - April 21, 1952), British Labour politician, was born in London, the son of a Conservative member of the House of Commons who late in life, as Lord Parmoor, joined the Labour Party.
		As he was not yet an member of Parliament, he stood for and was elected in a by-election for the solidly Labour seat of Bristol South-East.
		Cripps was an early advocate of a popular front against the rising threat of fascism, and in the face of this threat he abandoned his more extreme positions: the Socialist League was dissolved in 1937.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stafford_cripps.html (770 words)

	The Cummings Center Series
		Sir Stafford Cripps served as the British ambassador in Moscow from May 1940 until January 1942.
		A militant left-winger, Cripps was expelled from the Labour Party in June 1939 for advocating a united front against fascism.
		The collection further includes a diary which Cripps kept of his fact-finding tour to the Far East and Moscow in winter 1939-40, a tour of Turkey in March 1941, and a selection of letters from the family archives.
	www.tau.ac.il /~russia/series/book-cripps.html (316 words)

	Harvard Paper
		Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, the wealthy British lawyer-turned-politician: ascetic and intense, possessed of a wintry cordiality, incorruptible, committed to socialism and ‘planned’ international exchange.
		Cripps coolly responded that, if the Americans were dissatisfied, they should withdraw some of their own offers in order to achieve a balance.
		Cripps disputed the statistical basis used by Clayton in support of his case and his interpretation of the obligations Britain had agreed to in Washington in 1945.
	www.bu.edu /historic/abstracts/Miller.htm (11384 words)

	Guardian \| Sir Geoffrey Wilson
		Sir Geoffrey Wilson, who has died aged 94, was a distinguished public servant with a richly varied career.
		He accompanied Sir Stafford Cripps to India, Moscow and China in 1940, served with Cripps at the Moscow embassy during the second world war, translated Churchill's wartime letters to Stalin, and was part of the British delegation to the Yalta conference in 1945.
		Cripps and Geoffrey then moved on to Burma and China, where Cripps met the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his wife.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4973569-103684,00.html (1224 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		In our studies at undergraduate level Cripps is remembered for his 1942 proposals, and for Gandhi’s aphorism calling his proposals "a post-dated cheque" on a failing or crashing bank, whatever it may be.
		Broadly speaking, the book is divided into five parts: Cripps’ early life, his Ambassadorship to Russia, his two Missions to India, his role as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and finally a moving account of his illness and death.
		Cripps had a profound influence on the political destiny of India from 1942 onwards until Mountbatten took over as the Viceroy.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20021201/spectrum/book1.htm (1143 words)

	Cripps and India's Partition
		Cripps' was "a practical intelligence, highly geared and sharply focussed on clearly specified issues".
		Cripps knew that India's plural society was riven with "a perpetual majority and a perpetual minority" on communal, not political, lines.
		Cripps was "tipped off that the Muslim League was ready to accept; he knew that the attitude of Congress was the crux".
	www.flonnet.com /fl1915/19150860.htm (3427 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		Sir Stafford Cripps was sent to India at a time when the war was not going well for the Allies and Japanese forces were knocking at the doors of India after impressive successes in South-East Asia.
		Sir Stafford agreed that there might be a Defence Member in the national government and the Defence Department would deal with public relations, petroleum, canteens, stationery and printing, amenities for troops, etc. The British Commander-in-Chief would exercise full authority over the armed forces and military operations.
		The failure of the Cripps Mission is a fact of history and one would have expected the book to open a window on what the British War Cabinet had in mind about the future of India.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050522/spectrum/book3.htm (545 words)

	New Statesman (1996): Man without a party. (Books).(The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps)@ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Stafford Cripps, more than any other cabinet giant in the 1945-50 Labour government, symbolises "the age of austerity".
		As chancellor of the exchequer from 1947-50, he was the chief architect of the postwar settlement based on Keynesian principles of economic management.
		Yet until recently, Cripps suffered unfairly from relative neglect at the hands of historians.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:85250587&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (191 words)

	11 South Square
		Sir Stafford Cripps went on to become the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late 1940s, having been Minister of Aviation during the Second World War.
		Sir Patrick Graham was the High Court Patents Judge from 1969 to 1981.
		Sir Nicholas Pumfrey was appointed in 1997 to the Chancery Division of the High Court and is now the senior specialist Patents Judge.
	www.11southsquare.com /home.html (235 words)

	The National Archives \| Research, education & online exhibitions \| Exhibitions \| The Art of War \| Propaganda \| ...
		"Sir Stafford Cripps" by Arthur Boughley, Date unknown, Charcoal and pencil on paper.
		Sir Winston Churchill appointed him ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1940, primarily due to his left wing credentials.
		Cripps was a popular figure amongst the British working classes.
	nationalarchives.gov.uk /theartofwar/prop/personalities/INF3_0060.htm (169 words)

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		Unlike Lansbury, Sir Stafford Cripps was not that well-known before 1931.
		Cripps, although having studied chemistry at the University of London, followed his father and grandfather into the legal profession and was admitted to the Bar in 1913.
		Cripps was appointed to the vacancy, amid acclaim from the legal profession, and by ancient tradition, was knighted upon taking office.
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	New Statesman: Man without a party. . - Books - The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Tory imperialist in his younger days, Cripps became a Marxist in the 1930s, arguing first for a popular front with the communists, then for a united one with any political grouping opposed to fascism.
		Clarke writes with acumen on Churchill's complex relations with the often worldly-unwise Cripps, whose odd moment of apparent political ascendancy soon faded after his failed mission to India.
		There is no suggestion that Cripps was ever a Soviet agent, but there was official disapproval of some of the company he was keeping.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4582_131/ai_85250587 (871 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cripps Sir (Richard) Stafford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cripps, Sir (Richard) Stafford (1889-1952), British lawyer and political leader, born in London, and educated at University College (now part of the...
		Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890), British explorer, linguist, and student of Asian cultures, one of the most famous mid-19th century European...
		Bourke, Sir Richard (1777-1855), governor of New South Wales, Australia (1831-1837), who introduced liberal reforms to the colony.
	encarta.msn.com /Cripps_Sir_(Richard)_Stafford.html (136 words)

	Truman Library - Paul G. Hoffman Oral History Interview
		HOFFMAN: Most of the ministers of the Marshall Plan countries were present with Sir Stafford Cripps acting as their spokesman.
		HOFFMAN: While Sir Stafford Cripps and I started out, I think, in a mutually skeptical attitude one about the other, I came to have the utmost respect for him.
		Sir Stafford wisely insisted that the Anglo-American Council should include representatives of both the employers and the employees.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/hoffmanp.htm (3325 words)

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		Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), the son of a Conservative politician, made a career in the law before being drawn into the Labour party in 1929.
		He returned to London in 1942 with his reputation enhanced; Churchill appointed him Leader of the House of Commons on his return, with a place in the war cabinet.
		Cripps spent most of his energies on discussing the post-war settlement of India, and he resigned before the end of the year.
	www.commonsleader.gov.uk /output/Page694.asp (178 words)

	LRB \| Ross McKibbin : Non-Party Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stafford Cripps is perhaps the only major figure of 20th-century British politics to have had no full biography - one based on the whole range of scholarly sources.
		However, during the years it was in force the Cripps papers were closed to other scholars.
		Furthermore, Dalton's own more than readable autobiography was completed 40 years ago, and his memorable description of Cripps (in the 1930s) as a 'dangerous political lunatic' is one of those phrases which remains in the mind while the context in which it was written does not.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n18/print/mcki01_.html (600 words)

	Stafford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0846431.html (286 words)

	Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), Statesman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lawyer and Labour politician; a nephew of Beatrice Webb, Cripps served as Solicitor-General in Ramsay Macdonald’s 1930-1 government.
		Cripps was ambassador in Moscow (1940-2) and from 1942 a member of the War Cabinet and Minister of Aircraft Production (1942-5).
		It is as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947-50) that he is best known, his policy of strict taxation and wage freezing earning him the nickname ‘Austerity’ Cripps.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01106 (117 words)

	Cripps Wayne Cripps, His Page With Information About Lutes Wayne Cripps. Systems Manager For Unix In Co (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Richard Stafford Cripps was born in London on.
		From the publishers of THE HINDU More than any other British leader, Stafford Cripps shaped his country's policy towards India in the crucial which the author has unearthed explains why Cripps behaved as he did.
		Native Mississippian, ordained minister and accountant, John Cripps has become a major neo-Confederate activist he became a public figure, Cripps was pastor of the so-called.
	www.99hosted.com /names7319.html (459 words)

	Making the Modern World - Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps
		Cripps, nephew of Beatrice Webb, suffered from poor physical health for most of his life but excelled at law, becoming a leading barrister during the inter-war years.
		Cripps firmly believed that industrial design was a significant factor in the future of British manufacturing.
		In 1947 Cripps was made Chancellor until ill health forced his retirement in 1950.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0173 (265 words)

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