Newly-Acquired Modesty Of Sir Stafford
Received Friday 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 4. Sir Stafford Cripps, of whom there has heen considerable comment in Britain since devaluation, has also heen a suhject for comment in Paris during the O.E.E.C. discussions. Paul Hoffman, the American representative, declared to reporters: "Oripps is a nice guy, hut I don't follow the working qf his mind." The Daily Telegraph reports that Sir Stafford Cripps has heen noticeahly less self-confident than at previous meetings of the European Finance Ministers. "This time," it is stated in Lord Peterhorough's column, "he has meticuously referred hack to London for approval of his course ot action, and even of the form of words he should use. His lately acquired modesty also shows itself in his relations with Mr Bevin who is also in Paris. It has heen noticed that the Foreign Secretary has frequently suggested a change of wording. Sir Stafford seems to have heen glad to comply. "The contrast with other meetings of O.E.E.C. is surprising. Then the Chancellor felt himself conipetent to do almost anything on his own responsihility. Sir Stafford 's new attitade" it is added, "is being taken as another sign of the waning of his influence in Cahinet."
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1949, Page 5
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