SUPERVISOR OF BRITAIN'S LARDER
The Rt. Hon. John Strachey, M.P., Minister of Food in the British Government (he succeeded Sir Ben Smith) broadcasting to the B.B.C. He has been very much in che news lately in connection with Britain's bread* rationing scheme. Forty-four years old, 6ft. 2in. in height, socialist John Strachey was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; His father was St. Loo Strachey, famous editor of the Spectator, a pronounced Tory journal in those days. He joined the R.A.F. in 1941, reaching the rank of Wing Commander, and as^an official spokes-
.nan of the Air Ministry often gave iroadcast commentaries (anonymously) on the Air War, in thc B.B.C. Home Service. After the war ne was appointed Under-Seeretan to the Air Ministry in the new Labour Government. He first stood as a Labour candidate at the age of 23, just down from Oxford, but was defeated. Ir :he 1929 Parliament he sat as ? Socialist and then became attachec1 -0 Sir Oswald Mosley and his new party, but he was quick to see and to denounce its Fascist tendencies An athlete, he is a keen cricketer tennis and squash player. He is also 1 talented writer and is the authoi of a number of books 011 politica! cconomy.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 September 1946, Page 4
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