NATIONAL LEADERS: Rt. Hon. A. Greenwood
NE of Winston Churchill’s righthand men is the Right Hon. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio in the British Cabinet. He is now 60 years of age. Twenty years ago Mr. Greenwood turned his back on what people describe as "a dazzling career" in the Civil Service and joined the Labour Party. No hard and fast system could ever hold him; his gifts have now found an outlet in organisation.
Arthur Greenwood is a man of courage and determination. He has served on more committees of investigation and research than any other man in Britain. He was born at Leeds, and began his career as a school teacher. A scholarship took him to the Manchester University, and after some years of studying history and economics he became head of the economics department of the Huddersfield Technical College and Lecturer in Economics at the Leeds University. Arthur Greenwood won his first seat in Westminster in 1922 and has represented Wakefield since 1932. After the last war he gained a great reputation when he worked on committees concerned with reconstruction, relations between employers and employed, adult education, profiteering, Trusts, health and labour commissions. When Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour Government he was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. He became Minister of Health in the 1929 Labour Government. One of his most important tasks before he was appointed to the Churchill Cabinet was Secretary of the Labour Party Research and Information Department. It has been said that Arthur Greenwood would stand to the last by a friend he knew was wrong, but that is the sort of man he is. He is worshipped in Yorkshire.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 66, 27 September 1940, Page 3
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