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When the vote came, Labor's motion to censure the Churchill government lost overwhelmingly: 303 to 196, with 57 Bevanite abstentions. At week's end, Clem Attlee felt impelled to make it clear that the vast majority of the British Labor Party supports the Tory decision to use H-bombs if necessary. Addressing the Oxford University Labor Club, Attlee also advised all those, including Churchill and Bevan, who set such store by Big Three talks: "It's no good going to the Kremlin and thinking you can read them the Sermon on the Mount . . . They are tough...
Tongue Looseners. In San Francisco, when Police Officers Milton Piro and Clem DeAmicas spotted and approached a stolen Cadillac, the two cigar-smoking teen-agers inside complained that they were hungry, promised to talk if they were fed, after one order of waffles led the officers to a stolen stripped-down car in an alley, after the second order led them to another car, after the third order produced two more and were turned over to juvenile authorities...
...appear in the House of Commons when it won easy approval. A few days later the second blow fell: in another private session the Labor M.P.s voted 124 to 72 to support German rearmament. When the Bevanites began their insurrection, they had come within nine votes of defeating Clem Attlee on this issue; now Attlee carried the day by 52 votes...
...complexion of the second period was entirely different as the Crimson attack began to work. Green goalie Clem Malin found himself hard-pressed more than once, but except for an unassisted goal by center forward Grey Hodnett at 6:40, the Crimson could not score...
...Labor Party gathered for their annual conference. Nye Bevan's followers were loud and vociferous; only two weeks before, at the Trades Union Congress, they had come close to carrying the day on the German issue. At Scarborough, they expected to be stronger, felt they had Clem Attlee hanging by a thread...