CRIPPS, ADVOCATE EXTRAORDINARY—Patricia Strauss—Duell, Sloane & Pearce ($3). Last month gaunt, radical Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons Sir Richard Stafford Cripps K.C., P.C ...

S ir Stafford Cripps, austere president of the Board of Trade, was the prospective recipient of a somewhat pointed Christmas present. In London, one Desmond Leslie had read of the woman who wrote ...