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...Bevan was a changed and embittered man. Ever since he broke with Clement Attlee over the Labor Party's support for a Southeast Asia alliance and German rearmament, Bevan had kept to himself. Night after night he sat brooding in the "Bevanite" corner of the Commons' Smoke Room with one or two henchmen. Only rarely did the old wit flash out, the great laugh boom...
...driving on without stopping. Others saw him as he saw himself, the tragic figure of a savior to whom nobody was grateful. He insisted over and over that only his resignation from Labor's shadow Cabinet at the first mention of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization had restrained Clement Attlee and indirectly, Anthony Eden, from plunging ahead and bringing on a world war. Stubbornly he reiterated that the rank and file supported him, that the Labor leadership was wrong...
...deplore the U.S. refusal to recognize Communist China, to urge the government to continue its independence of U.S. policy. Sir Robert Boothby, the Tories' TV glamour boy, passed his judgment on Eden at Geneva: "I know of no comparable diplomatic achievement during the past 25 years." Opposition Leader Clement Attlee declared that the "most notable" thing about Geneva was the European debut of the "real rulers" of China, and the "most important" thing the "contact" established with the Chinese government...
...Government of China was sending a charge d'affaires to London. All over the House there were murmurs of approval. Laborite Desmond Donnelly rose to remark that here at last was "long-delayed justification of the initiative originally taken by Ernest Bevin in 1950"; Socialists cheered, and Clement Attlee, who is leaving in August on a junket to Peking, nodded his approval...
Welcome Home. Professor Clement Darrelhyde, for example, is scarcely less frustrated than Edwina at Percy's gentle but unyielding reluctance to father her offspring. Every day the professor stands before their cage at the London Zoo to observe their mating habits. He anticipates a certain fame as the first white man to see and record what native reports suggest is "a ceremonial so poetic, so apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides...