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2 unusual facts about Stafford Cripps


Grantham by-election, 1942

The popular Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps, who had returned to Britain following a spell as Ambassador to Russia, was brought into Churchill's War Cabinet.

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From there, he tried to establish contact with the German underground through Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's foreign minister, and organized ship transports for Jewish children escaping from Europe.


Gilbert Laithwaite

In 1947 he took part in London talks on Burmese independence, also attended by Stafford Cripps and Aung San.


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