Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clement Attlee is going to fire some of his ministers. For both it would be a painful business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he shared Labor's triumph in 1945. For them, it would be the moment when they must go to the King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably...
...Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant and ineffective in all things...
...party, he is a formidable figure who knows all there is to know about party management. This know-how is crucial in the Labor Party, which is an insecure amalgam of two parties-the trade unionists, who have the votes, and the theoretical socialists, who supply the agitation. Clement Attlee's strength is his neutral smallness. All the big men around him belong to one side or the other. Attlee belongs to both and to neither...
...Clement Attlee, opening an educational center as a memorial to oldtime Fabian Socialist Beatrice Webb, hoped aloud that the place would not be full of radio and gramophone music. "One of the hardest things at this time," observed Britain's much-criticized Prime Minister, now deep in hard times, "is to get some quiet to speak...
...Clement Attlee, he recalled his Cabinet ministers from holidays four days after Parliament had recessed. They held a secret, special Sunday evening meeting, presumably to consider new proposals to increase the food supply...