Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Clement Attlee's arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps...
...some members of the President's Cabinet and by the small retinue of advisers accompanying the British Prime Minister. Harry Truman spoke earnestly of his desire that the U.S. should have a "foreign policy of the people" which would fit into a "worldwide and continuous peace program." Agreeing, Clement Attlee said: "What we are out for today is to try and devise a world policy of the common...
Navy's yacht, that afternoon the Messrs. Truman, Attlee and King cruised up & down the Potomac and resumed their talks. The atomic bomb was the overriding topic, and word leaked out that Clement Attlee had a fresh proposal. It was a compromise between the "share" and the "don't share" proponents...
...Clement Attlee suggested that the U.S., Britain and Canada, as holders of the bomb secret, share it with the eight other members of the United Nations Security Council. The conditions were these: i) that all future scientific information of all countries be likewise shared; 2) that the other nations give ironclad guarantees that they will work in honesty and frankness with UNO; and 3) that Russia state its political objectives and territorial aims fully and completely...
...Russian aims and objectives are satisfactory to Britain, the U.S. and Canada, and are accompanied by a firm statement of Russia's intention to work with UNO-Clement Attlee proposed-the bomb secret will be shared. If not, the secret will be kept, but with a guarantee not to use it except in cooperation with the United Nations...