Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch was like to that recently carried out in Czechoslovakia, where Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky was dumped in favor of native son Clement Gottwald. But in Rumania, although arrests of minor government officers and army officers are taking place on all sides, the trouble does not yet seem serious enough to warrant a full-dress trial of the big-time scapegoats. Ana still hangs on to her job at the Org-buro, the organizational center of the Communist Party-in the shadow, but still around in case of another unpredictable change in the weather...
Erratically led, beset by punishing opposition in the House (they have weathered 105 divisions), the Tories after six months in office are battered but not beaten. "I am convinced this government cannot last for very long," said Labor Leader Clement Attlee last week. But Labor itself, riven by Bevanite irresponsibles, is far less fit to govern. Tories counted on time, and the workings of Butler's economic policies, to pull them through...
...Laborites who came up from the union ranks, like Ernest Bevin, or through local politics, like Clement Attlee, often feared and fought him; once they exiled him from the party for six years because the well-born intellectual continually leaned further left than his working-class colleagues. But they probably would never have carried their party to power without the tall (6 ft.), ascetic intellectual from the Cotswolds who ate nothing but nuts, raw fruits and vegetables (because of colitis picked up when he was an ambulance driver in World War I), preached from the pulpits of his beloved Anglican...
Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Britain's left-wing Laborite Aneurin Bevan, whose noisy tirades against the U.S. have been stilled neither by Winston Churchill nor Clement Attlee, fell silent, canceled his weekend speaking dates because of a laryngitis attack...