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...speech, delivered on the eve of British Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee's arrival in Peking (see below), Chou dismissed Attlee's suggestion that Formosa be placed under U.N. trusteeship. "Taiwan is inviolable Chinese territory," Chou declared. "Its liberation . . . is an exercise of China's sovereignty and China's own internal affair." The Red Premier accused the U.S. of occupying Red Chinese territory by sending arms and instructors to help Formosa defend itself. "This increases the danger...
Browning, was battling to avenge his 1952 defeat at the hands of Governor Frank Clement. Browning supporters charged Clement with accepting a Cadillac as a gift from trucking interests and with forging letters used to disprove other Browning attacks. But much of the political sheen had worn off Old Warhorse Browning, 64, whom Clement's forces berated for having "sold out the South" at the 1952 Democratic convention by voting to unseat the Virginia delegation. Clement, still the nation's youngest (34) governor, seemed to impress the voters with his oratorical spellbinding and the record of his first...
Last week Tennesseans voted. The lopsided results: for Senator-Kefauver, 389,000; Sutton, 165,000; for governor-Clement, 436,000; Browning...
...Scuttle" when they advocated withdrawal from Suez in 1946, thoroughly enjoyed Churchill's discomfiture, greeted him with sardonic cries of "No scuttling." Below the gangway sat 40 grim-faced Tories, the "Suez rebels" sworn to vote against the government rather than accept withdrawal. The first question Opposition Leader Clement Attlee asked was barbed: "In view of the statements which were made by the present Prime Minister on the absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement has the Prime Minister's consent?" There was a roar...
...Test Is China. Two days later, the diplomatic galleries were jammed, queues lengthened into the street, as Clement Attlee opened a foreign policy debate for Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition...