Word: clem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good will of the peasant population." In Red China, said Attlee, "there is no pretense that everything is all right yet. That is an engaging contrast to Russia, where we were always assured that they are ahead of the world in everything." And of course, in Red China, said Clem, there were "no flies...
...have on U.S. opinion. Generally, Britain's approving majority seemed to feel that 1) if Britain wants coexistence with the Communists, it will have to deal with Communist leaders; 2) if Britain's friends, the Americans, will not talk to the Communist Chinese, then someone like Socialist Clem Attlee must serve as go-between. The Times defended Attlee as a man of sense; the Liberal News Chronicle reminded its readers that the Socialists "have been fighting Communism all their lives." The Socialist Daily Herald brushed off the criticism as a "circus of spite...
...tourists then flew on to Shanghai, Red China's biggest city, which Attlee said reminded him of London. At a great civic banquet, Clem Attlee toasted "the stabilization of world peace," and added, "Like you, we ardently desire to promote peace . . . The more you get to know people, the more you find things on which you agree." He was heartily in favor of more East-West trade. More skeptical newsmen, however, taking a look around Shanghai (where the British once had several hundred million dollars invested), found the few remaining British businessmen desperately consenting to all kinds of confiscatory...
After five days in Peking, the British pilgrims flew on to Manchuria. As they departed, Peking was aglow with the kind words they left behind. Said Clem Attlee: "We sympathized with the Chinese people in their long struggle . . . against the forces of reaction and wish well to the New China." Said Aneurin Bevan: "Our presence is sufficient to show our support for the Chinese People's Revolution...
...boulder gave them a Geiger count of 10,000. Then they noticed that a landslide ^ from a 200-ft. hill had pushed the "hot" uranium rocks down toward the creek. Said Cab Driver Clem Walton: Nature has done a remarkable thing for us." Working up the hillside, with Geigers clicking, they got counts up to a fantastic 48,000. The prospectors promptly staked out a mile-square claim, named it Mary Kathleen after McConachie's wife, who had died ten days before. As word of the strike hit the newspapers, 14 companies began bidding for the lease. It looked...