Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mortal foe, tapped them in his famed Locarno speech in which he called for a "parley at the summit" (TIME, May 18). Yet it is a milder man than either who most sums up this strange new British brand of neo-neutralism in the cold war. His name is Clement Attlee...
...measure of Secretary Dulles as the champion of a moral order in politics is the rising opposition to him. For weeks, the British, soaked in the politics of expediency, have been working behind the scenes to unseat Dulles. After Dulles' speech. Clement Attlee struck a public blow, professing to find "certain tendencies toward intolerance" in the U.S. approach. Attlee is still glowing from a visit to Communist Yugoslavia. No Communist sympathizer, Attlee yet feels compelled to find some good in Communism before he can cooperate with it. That is the kind of absolutism that emerges from Attlee...
...sixths of its M.P.s come from the T.U.C. members, the union's views make much of Labor policy. By their votes last week, the union men were foreshadowing some of the decisions to be made later this month at the Labor Party's own convention in Margate. Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison and the other leaders of Britain's Loyal Opposition, hopeful for a return to power some day, sensed that the electorate was tired of the forward-cryers pushing from the rear...
Britain's Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee tried last week to explain why the Chinese Communists should be admitted to the U.N. Admission is not a privilege, he declared, but a recognition of fact. "The fact is that China is not governed by Chiang Kaishek, but by the present government." He was convinced that "generally speaking," the Communists would subscribe to U.N. principles...
...faced a second-string opposition. Since the death of Kurt Schumacher, the fanatic and brilliant orator, the powerful Social.Democratic Party is presided over by mild Erich Ollenhauer, a sort of chubby Clement Attlee in Lederhosen. The Socialists' principal attack on Adenauer's record: that not enough of West Germany's prosperity trickles down to the workers, that Adenauer's pro-American foreign policy prejudices the chance for a reunified Germany...