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...voters dealt a severe blow to Clement Atlee's Labor forces, who won the popular vote in the 1951 elections but lost out in the tabulation of House of Common seats. This time the Conservatives ran ahead in popular vote as well...
...newly-acquired office until October, 1956. But the talking points of existing prosperity and probable talks with Russia "at the summit" were too good to pass by. Besides, the Labour party was just at that time embarrassingly split by internal feuds. Its moderate wing, represented by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, had been driven rightwards by attacks from the Bevanites on the left. A party which failed to maintain the support of its own members, the Conservatives reasoned, could hardly hope for the support of the nation...
Then there was Buckinghamshire and a home named Cherry Cottage-or at least the best reproduction of it a London TV studio could manage. Inside a modest, chintzy living room, a camera settled on the figure of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, slightly hunched over like a shiny-domed parenthesis. "We want only those restrictions which make life freer for the majority," explained the leader of Labor. ". . . The tiger in his cage is very fed up, but the rest of us are pleased he is behind bars. That is the only kind of restrictions we want." As for peace...
...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...
...Whose approximately 57,000 voters are the only ones in Great Britain who will find Eden's name on the ballot. The voters of Walthamstow West are the only ones who vote directly for or against Labor's Clement Attlee. Each constituency votes for its own M.P.: the party that elects the most organizes the government and installs its leaders...