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...challengers went into the fight as underdogs, but only slightly under (by 1%, according to the week's News Chronicle Gallup poll). Their leaders wore chipper fronts, but in private were far from optimistic. "I shall enjoy every minute of it," promised old (72) but spry Party Leader Clement Attlee, as he plunged into his tenth election campaign...
Swine Talk. Labor's staunch old familiars ranged out onto the hustings last week to address a country which seemed to be basking in a kind of prosperous complacency. Calm Clement Attlee hastened about in a Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll...
...general election, May 26. On their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee, visiting in Canada, learned of Eden's decision at a whistle stop in the Rockies. He and other Labor leaders darkly accused Eden of precipitant haste, but stoutly insisted that Labor is ready and eager. The present lineup in the House of Commons is Tories 322 seats, Labor 294, Liberals 6. The Tories are confident that they can increase their majority, for the nation is prosperous, and recent local elections have shown a mild swing toward the right. But the result is no foregone conclusion: not since 1832 has an incumbent British government increased...
...wish the [new Prime Minister] health and strength," said ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee in the course of a tribute to Churchill. "We cannot, of course, wish him a long tenure of office . . . but as a Mr. Young said to Lord Melbourne when that statesman was hesitating to accept the premiership: 'Why, damn it all . . . if it only last three months, it will be worthwhile to have been Prime Minister of England...