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...Communism as an answer to the poverty she encountered as a social worker on Manhattan's East Side and later in Oakland, Calif. Sentenced to prison in 1920 under California's Criminal Syndicalism Act to curb post-World War I sabotage, she was eventually pardoned by Governor Clement Calhoun Young after a storm of appeals from liberal sympathizers, many of whom were later alienated by her strict following of the Stalinite Communist line...
...Formosa, while emphasizing the references to a ceasefire. "The first concern of Her Majesty's government has been, and is, to stop the fighting," Eden insisted. From the Labor benches burst shrill criticisms. The U.S. proposal is "intervention" in a civil war, snapped 71-year-old Opposition Leader Clement Attlee. If hostilities are to be stopped, "the right thing would be that China should occupy her proper position in the U.N." Another Laborite demanded, with a great show of emotion, that Eden "make it clear" to the U.S. that the British people would not support any move "which would...
Tennessee. The nation's youngest (34) governor, Frank Clement,* a onetime FBI agent and part-time lay preacher, ran up a good record in his first two years and has a good program ready for his new four-year term. Spellbinding Corn-Shuck-er Clement, re-elected with the state's biggest vote, hopes for a chance to make the keynote speech at the 1956 Democratic convention. He figures he can talk himself into the vice-presidency, at least...
Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, in a graceful speech, declared he had come "not to bury Caesar but to praise him. Caesar indeed-for you have not only carried on war but have written your own commentary." Churchill rose to echoing cheers and stood in the wave of applause with his hands splayed across his paunch, beaming over his spectacles. He inspected carefully the ornate book, inscribed with Bunyan's quotation and signed by nearly all MPs. "This is to me the most memorable public occasion of my life," said the man who has known many memorable occasions...
...that Sir David, a successful Home Secretary, has been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Kilmuir (Churchill recently made him Lord Chancellor), a by-election was needed. Both parties wheeled out their heavy artillery. "There has been a steady encroachment on the living standards of our people," claimed Socialist Clement Attlee. For the Tories Sir Winston claimed a calmer world outside and more prosperity inside Britain. A characteristically tight British majority apparently agreed with Sir Winston. The result: for 27-year-old Tory John Woollam, a riveter's son, 21,158 votes versus 18,650 for his Socialist rival...