Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish the [new Prime Minister] health and strength," said ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the course of a tribute to Churchill. "We cannot, of course, wish him a long tenure of office . . . but as a Mr. Young said to Lord Melbourne when that statesman was hesitating to accept the premiership: 'Why, damn it all . . . if it only last three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England...
...week for a 20-minute confrontation that was marred only by a few heated exchanges with his archrival, Hugh Gaitskell. Nye, who like many of his Welsh constituents once lived sparely on bread and dripping (grease), now ate humble pie with a relish. He apologized deeply to Party Leader Clement Attlee "for any pain I may have caused him," and begged the committee "for nothing more than the opportunity to serve our party under his leadership." So reassuring were his words that next day the party executive decided, by a vote of 16 to 7, not to kick...
...winner would be Singapore's old Progressive Party, dominated by conservative, Westernized Chinese who are not too demanding in their cry for gradual independence. But the Progressives won only four seats. The decisive victor, with 10 out of 25 seats: the Labor Front, another Westernized party, endorsed by Clement Attlee's Socialists in Britain, which stands for mild socialism and pitches its appeal to the industrial workers, who are mostly Indians. The parties that had stirred the most anxious interest before the poll finished up as also-rans: the Communist-supported People's Action Party...
Laborite Leader Clement Attlee smoked his pipe and doodled while the right-wingers, led by Heir Apparent Herbert Morrison and Heir Apparent II Hugh Gaitskell, pressed for outright expulsion. But Clem Attlee, the man who had backed the disciplining of Bevan in the first place, pulled the pipe from his mouth and made a surprise proposal: postpone expulsion and set up a committee to inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan...
Attlee had his motive. The activities of the two political personalities, Churchill and Bevan, were in a way interlocked. Churchill's stepping down means elections soon-the guessing is for a date in spring or fall-and elections mean that Clement Attlee needs all the strength he can muster to make Labor even a respectable loser, let alone a winner. Though his prestige will not be helped by the sudden attack of timidity and tolerance for the man who persistently defies his leadership, Attlee knows that the poor showing he would make in an election without Nye Bevan...