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They did not feel that the immediate divulging of the know-how of the atom bomb's manufacture would contribute anything to keeping the peace. In fact, they thought it might have precisely the opposite effect. So no secrets would be given...
...spite of everything the war taught -the devastation of Germany and Japan by the Air Forces and the delivery of the atom bombs-the Navy's high brass still talks of air power as an inseparable adjunct of sea power-comparable, say, to the submarine force. Some admirals still think of tactical aircraft as a weapon something like a 16-in. naval gun. And on that stubborn basis they will fight to the end any threat to the old, traditional prestige of the surface ship. They were fighting desperately last week, somewhere near their one-yard line...
...atom was not Clement Attlee's sole concern. He also wanted to get on better terms with Harry Truman and convince the capitalist U.S. that socialist Britain could be a good and useful friend -especially if Communist Russia turned out to be no friend at all. In both endeavors, he made some progress...
...scientists had been noisier than their British brothers. But all had one characteristic in common: evangelically sure that something must be done, they were lost when they faced the political questions of what to do and how to do it. The atom, as Churchill and Bevin said, had not relieved statesmen of the responsibility for doing statesmen's work...
Either way, the Labor Government and Tory Opposition presented a united British front to the world on 1) the atom; 2) Russia. About to fly to Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) , Clement Attlee could not have asked for stronger backing...