Word: clement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptians paid for them. I do not like breaking contracts too easily." By clever parliamentary maneuvering, Wyatt and a few other discontented Labor M.P.s arranged that the arms-for-Egypt issue should be debated at a night meeting of the House which Bevin could not attend. (Together with Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, Bevin was off to a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands.) Before the debate began, Wyatt and several supporters headed for the office of Under Secretary of State Ernest Davies, who was scheduled to represent Bevin at the meeting...
From England came the report that Premier Clement Attlee would arrive in Washington Monday and ask that the United States avoid was with China...
However, British informants said yesterday that Prime Minister Clement Attlee will urge President Truman, in their Washington talks starting Monday, to avid war with Red China at all costs. Associates said Attlee believed that this is the only way to preserve western unity...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee pointed out recently that the British government has no constitutional right to ban a public meeting. However, Attlee went on, "we must reserve the right to refuse admittance [to Britain] to those whom we have no desire to entertain." Last week, the government proceeded to exercise that right to the full. Scotland Yard men hurried to Britain's ports and airfields to turn back scores of travelers on their way to Sheffield, busy Yorkshire steel city, to attend the Russian-inspired Second World Peace Congress, a propaganda platform for international Communism...
...Died. Clement Wood, 62, Alabama-born jack-of-all-letters; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Schenectady, N.Y. Wood turned out novels, verse, anthologies, biographies, dozens of miscellaneous volumes. Most durable products: the lyrics of The Glory Road, Short'nin' Bread...