Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clement Attlee, who did not greatly impress the President during their first meeting at Potsdam, will argue that: 1) all atomic information be pooled in the Security Council of the United Nations Organization; 2) atomic research and development be internationalized; 3) military use of The Bomb be mutually renounced...
...Clement Attlee said last week that the British plant will spend as much time on looking for peaceful uses of atomic energy as on The Bomb. He will try to sell Harry Truman on the same idea...
Last week Socialist Clement Attlee broke the precedent. Announcing to the House of Commons that Britain's World War II commanders would get no money rewards, he said: "It would not be in the spirit of the times...
...answers, but they had some modest ambitions. They heard their presiding officer, Britain's fiery little Minister of Education "Red Ellen" Wilkinson, suggest that if England and France could just agree on how to describe the Battle of Waterloo in their history books, it would help. They heard Clement Attlee's worthy bromides: "In your hands rests here and now the opportunity of establishing a common front against ignorance...
Britons seemed willing to accept the regimentation that introduced their planned future. But if they were to keep their freedom out on loan, they would want results, and before 1950. In a speech at Musselburgh, Scotland, Clement Attlee summed up his Party's aims: "To build a new society ... of peace, freedom and social justice." If it built all that, Labor might well catapult old, tired Britain into a new and thrilling place in the sun. If it failed, Britain would catapult Labor...