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Clement Attlee's Labor government last week faced its hardest important parliamentary test and every M.P. who could walk was in the House of Commons. Latecomers stood toe to heel in the back of the chamber. On Labor's front bench, little Clem Attlee, more inconspicuous than ever, was squeezed in between Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps...
Kentucky Derby (Sat. 5:15 p.m., CBS). Clem McCarthy calls the race from Churchill Downs...
Attlee knew he was elected by 2 a.m. Tensely, he made a little speech of thanks at Walthamstow's town hall. When Attlee came out of the hall and into the cold, wet morning, a woman admirer cried: "Good old Clem-Walthamstow's still loyal." Attlee laughed. At 4 a.m. his wife drove him to Labor headquarters at Transport House. Party Secretary Morgan Phillips was in charge of the tabulation. His staff, nibbling cheese sandwiches, greeted the first night's returns with restrained jubilation...
...Watford, Clem made a quarter-hour speech and the Hillman collected the first of the many bouquets that were soon to fill its back seat. From Watford the Attlee's road led to Wolverton and thence to Coventry. At each town border, local police escorts were waiting to pick up the Hillman...
...Best & the Worst. By the fifth day, Violet had driven 700 miles and Clem had made 18 speeches. By the time the Attlees reach Downing Street once more they will have covered some 1,500 miles. Friends were not sure whether Violet Attlee wants this tour, like the last, to end in Buckingham Palace. Some thought that maybe she would rather drive the Hillman into the neat garage of the Attlee's cozy new home, Cherry Cottage, in Buckinghamshire...