Cripps found me a doll for Christmas

The Sunday Telegraph London | April 7, 2002 | Copyright

The "dour" Sir Stafford Cripps, with his reputation as a "hair- shirted puritan" (Review, March 31), did have his human side. In November 1945, my mother wrote to him when he was President of the Board of Trade, asking his help in finding a doll to give me for Christmas, the shops then being bare of such frivolities. She sent him a postal order for pounds 1, which was returned by his private secretary who ...

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