Word: clement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That evening he was back in Potsdam, waiting for new Prime Minister Clement Attlee to show up and get on with the conferences, at which-so said top sources -he was making an impressive showing (see INTERNATIONAL...
Chiang Kai-shek read it in Chungking and approved it. Winston Churchill worked on it and signed it in Potsdam while he was still Prime Minister; Clement Attlee, prudently included in the early Potsdam meetings, approved it before he had any authority to sign it. Joseph Stalin, nominally neutral in the Pacific war, did not sign the declaration, but he undoubtedly gave it a look...
...Heart of Texas and Umbrella Man (which might have irritated Conservatives who recalled Neville Chamberlain), Churchill arrived with Clemmy (Mrs. Churchill). The Prime Minister drew a tremendous cheer. Then began one of the most exasperating hecklings of his career. Well-primed rowdies howled, booed and shouted: "We want Attlee!" (Clement Attlee, Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister). Said Churchill: "In a free country like ours. . . ." Boos blitzed him out. Churchill stared at his hecklers, said: "Surely that is not a party question...
With the coiling inclusiveness of a political anaconda, Winston Churchill threw a generous loop over Clement R. Attlee last week. The Prime Minister invited his No. i election opponent and the Labor Party's No. i leader to accompany him to the forthcoming Big Three conference (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he drew the loop tighter. Said Churchill: "We have in these last few years thought alike on the foreign situation." With the general election less than three weeks away, British voters could scarcely miss the point that on foreign policy there was little to choose between Churchill and Attlee...
Snapped Professor Harold J. Laski, leftist chairman of the British Labor Party: if Clement Attlee sat at the Big Three conference, it would be as an observer only; his attendance would not bind the Labor Party to any Big Three decisions. Said Attlee next day in accepting the invitation: "There was never any suggestion that I should go as a mere observer. . . ." The Labor Party scored off the Government in the matter of khaki candidates. A Government (i.e., Conservative) proposal that service candidates be permitted to wear their uniforms at the hustings brought on an electric storm in Parliament...