NATIONAL LEADERS: Herbert Morrison
MAN who began life as an A errand boy now controls the destiny of Britain’s war supplies. Thus, from the most humble beginning the Right Hon. Herbert Stanley Morrison. P.C., has become one of the key men of Mr. Churchill’s War Cabinet. It has been his task to speed up supplies of guns, ammunition, tanks, and planes, and bring to their fullest capacity the output of factories in which these armaments are produced. It has not been easy, but Mr. Morrison has never tackled easy jobs. "The selfappointed scourge of the Communists," a fellow M.P. described him when war broke out. Beginning as an errand boy Mr. Morrison progressed to Westminster after being employed as a shop assistant, a telegraph operator, in the newspaper world, and in local body politics. He did not become a public figure until his election as Mayor of Hackney in 1920. Since then he has been a leading figure in the government of London and leader of the London County Council since 1934. He has been secretary of the London Labour Party and Chairman of the National Labour Party. From 1929 to 1931 he was Minister of Transport. Mr.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 2
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