Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Sir David, a successful Home Secretary, has been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Kilmuir (Churchill recently made him Lord Chancellor), a by-election was needed. Both parties wheeled out their heavy artillery. "There has been a steady encroachment on the living standards of our people," claimed Socialist Clement Attlee. For the Tories Sir Winston claimed a calmer world outside and more prosperity inside Britain. A characteristically tight British majority apparently agreed with Sir Winston. The result: for 27-year-old Tory John Woollam, a riveter's son, 21,158 votes versus 18,650 for his Socialist rival...
...have it: "Mr. Bevan wears the outward cloak of Socialism to hide the face of an agent of the bourgeoisie. He hoodwinks the British people, hinders the revolution of the British working man, and is in fact working in the interests of the British capitalists. He, with Mr. [Clement] Attlee, is just another one of the sly badger gang...
...commitment toward German sovereignty and rearmament, Britain's most reckless statesman made a last-ditch effort to exploit the fears and emotions aroused by that issue. Aneurin Bevan did not conceal his purpose: to wrest the Labor Party's leadership from the temperate hands of Clement Attlee...
Last week, covering the Labor Party conference at Scarborough (see FOREIGN NEWS), Cassandra gave a demonstration of what Editorial Director Cudlipp means. Writing in the Laborite Mirror, Cassandra blasted Labor Party Chief Clement Attlee: "The whole effect [of his report on his trip to Red China] was that we can do business with Peking ... It is a sinister theme ... It is also a tempting theme ... It was the hope of the Foreign Office and also of Neville Chamberlain that both Nazi Germany and Communist Russia would destroy each other by their complementary antagonism . . . Kicking this dream around is like pretending...
...Conference was also a test of Clement Attlee's leadership of the Labor Party. Attlee and the National Executive were pledged to some form of German rearmament, while the Bevanites in the party choose this issue to make a test of Executive strength. Attlee returned from Peking to Scarborough to find a Conference agenda packed with resolutions against rearmament, the constituency parties solidly backing these resolutions, and even some of the Trade Unions, the traditional source of Attlee's strength, siding with Bevan on the issue. On the eve of the rearmament vote, the London Times, noting this Trade Union...