Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of TradeĀin protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps.
Smith wanted the pottery industry nationalized and expanded. Sir Stafford Cripps refused, ordered Britons to eat off white (austerity) dinnerware and export all fancy ware. In a huff,...
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