Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons, Clement Attlee, leader of the Opposition, had just gravely accepted Foreign Secretary Eden's announcement of the Southeast Asia agreement. Suddenly, from the farther end of the Labor front bench, burly Nye Bevan came scrambling over his colleagues' feet to reach the dispatch box. Almost stepping on Attlee's toes physically, as he was in fact politically, Bevan flatly defied his party's leader. The Asia agreement, he cried, was "a surrender to American pressure," and it "will be deeply resented by the majority of people in Great Britain." The agreement was framed...
Pale-faced Clement Attlee was first on his feet. "Once there is a war in the modern age, in the last resort, any weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said...
...London Observer (circ. 475,609) reported the meeting fully. The Observer's veteran parliamentary reporter and novelist (Fear No Evil), Hugh Massingham, even included such details as Nye Bevan's letting "off a few spirited quips about the stupidity and dishonesty of some of his colleagues," and Clement Attlee's announcing "through pipe puffs that 'I'm told this [vote] will split the party, [but I] can't help that...
Labor Split. Apparently the Foreign Ministers misjudged the amount of agreement they would get among their countrymen. In Britain, the obvious lesson of Berlin had indeed convinced Clement Attlee and his Labor Party leadership; but it made no impression whatever on a great number of his followers. Last week the issue split the Labor Party from top to bottom, came within two votes of overturning Attlee's leadership...
...doctors, nurses and trained attendants) in such numbers that vigorous and more effective treatment can begin as soon as a patient is admitted to a hospital, or (preferably) in time to prevent the need for admission. Another item was stepped-up research, but Tennessee's Governor Frank G. Clement contended with good reason that present knowledge is not being put to use. As he phrased it: "If we knew as much about the cure of cancer as we do about that of mental illness, there would be a medical revolution overnight...