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Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, he first entered Parliament at a by-election in January 1931 , and was one of a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat at the October general election that year .
Apr 20, 2024 · Sir Stafford Cripps (born April 24, 1889, London, England—died April 21, 1952, Zürich, Switzerland) was a British statesman chiefly remembered for his rigid austerity program as chancellor of the exchequer (1947–50).
Apr 28, 2015 · This was Stafford Cripps, whom the Labour Party expelled in 1939 for advocating cooperation with Communists in a popular front against fascism. Cripps was a patriot, a militant socialist, a militant Christian, a vegetarian, a teetotaler.
Promising an early governmental statement of a new policy toward India, Cripps made the sensational assertion that England’s lost lands can only be regained, and the rest of the Empire saved ...
May 11, 2018 · Sir Stafford Cripps [1], 1889–1952, British statesman. A brilliant and successful patent and corporation lawyer, he joined the Labour party [2] in 1929 and became solicitor general in 1930, being knighted the same year.
From June 1940 to January 1942 he served as the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Cripps succeeded in bringing Russia and Britain together as allies during the war, and consequently, in February 1942, Churchill brought Cripps into the government as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons.
Like a clever lawyer, Sir Stafford Cripps picked out phrases from Mr. Gandhi’s statements without reference to their context, and tried to prove the British Imperialist case. “This is no time for...
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. Quick Facts Chancellor of the Exchequer, Prime Minister ...
Jun 1, 1985 · Reviewed by Fritz Stern. A fascinating monograph, based in part on new evidence from official and private papers, dealing with Stafford Cripps, the radical dissenter in British politics and a longtime proponent of close Anglo-Soviet relations.
Apr 24, 2021 · Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), politician and lawyer, was the youngest child of successful barrister, Conservative MP and Labour cabinet minister Charles Cripps. Stafford received a staunchly Christian but undogmatic education.
