Frasi di Stafford Cripps

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps è stato un politico inglese.

Esponente del Partito Laburista, dal 1940 fu ambasciatore a Mosca. Nel 1947, come Cancelliere dello Scacchiere sotto Clement Attlee, introdusse in Inghilterra l'austerity per ristabilire la bilancia commerciale e incrementare le esportazioni.

Fu membro del Parlamento inglese dal 1931 fino al 1950 per il collegio di Bristol East, leader della Camera dei Comuni nel 1942, Ministro della Produzione Aerea dal 1942 al 1945, Rettore dell'Università di Aberdeen dal 1942 al 1945, Ministro delle Economia nel 1947 e Cancelliere dello Scacchiere dal 1947 al 1950.

Soffriva di colite ed era vegetariano, sicuramente per motivi di salute e forse anche per una scelta etica. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Aprile 1889 – 21. Aprile 1952
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Stafford Cripps: Frasi in inglese

“Though we have achieved considerable success in our policy of increasing production and maintaining full employment, this has been accompanied by constant pressure for higher wages resulting in higher prices. We have not yet found out how we can maintain full employment in combination with stable or decreasing costs and prices.”

Memorandum, 'The Dollar Situation: Forthcoming Discussions with U.S.A. and Canada' (4 July 1949), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities: 1945–1950 (London: Pan, 1996), p. 353
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“The workers must now make it clear beyond all doubt that they will not support the Government or its armaments in its mad policy which it is now pursuing.”

Speech on 23 May, 1938, quoted in Talus, Your Alternative Government (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945), p. 45.

“I do not believe it would be a bad thing for the British working-class if Germany defeated us. It would be a disaster for the profit-makers and capitalists, but not necessarily for the working-class.”

Speech at Stockport (14 November 1936), The Manchester Guardian (15 November 1936), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1957), p. 151.

“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Hansard, House of Commons, 5th Series, vol. 292, col. 2425.
Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, 30 July, 1934.

“Emphatically no, and I never have been.”

Peter Howard, "Men on Trial" (Blandford Press, 1945), p. 69

Asked by Peter Howard whether he favoured the use of any measure of force to establish Socialism.

“I cannot imagine the Labour Party coming into power without a first-rate financial crisis. That is why we ask for full emergency measures.”

The Manchester Guardian (5 November 1934), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1957), p. 150.

“[In the case of sterling devaluation was] neither necessary nor will it take place.”

Press conference in Rome (1 May 1949), quoted in The Times (2 May 1949), p. 3
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“...we do not contemplate taking any action to alter the rate of sterling in relation to other currencies, as we do not believe that this will be rendered necessary or advisable.”

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1948/jan/26/french-franc-devaluation#column_672 in the House of Commons (26 January 1948)
Chancellor of the Exchequer

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