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...second day of debate, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the man who sent the vanguard of the British Commonwealth Division to Korea in 1950, quietly announced that he had a few words to say about the U.S. Obviously he could not let Churchill monopolize so popular a cause. "I hope they will cause no offense," he said. "I merely want to state some facts." Attlee, who once taught history and law at London University, can state facts in the manner of Mr. Squeers informing one of Nicholas Nickleby's pupils that a thrashing will hurt you more than...
...obscured the proposal that caused it. It was Sir Winston Churchill, you remember, who started the affair when he suggested that himself, Eisenhower and whoever happens to be running Russia might meet to settle some of the outstanding issues of the cold war. That was before Clement Attlee made a criticism of the U.S. Constitution which, for all its academic substantiation, was about as politic as Adlai Stevenson suggesting the Coronation is a pompous farce. And it was before Senator McCarthy disgusted everyone by applying to Attlee the same kind of smearing brush he has used on American nationals...
...last week's sale (the first of four scheduled), the cars were washed and polished by convicts from the state penitentiary. Clement, who had gone on TV to advertise the sale, auctioned off the first and last cars and two others. Among the other salesmen: ex-Governor James McCord, an auctioneer by profession. Because the carnival spirit of the sale made for free spending, Clement and his friends knocked the cars down at bids well above local retail prices for comparable used cars. Average for the 44 cars, one to seven years old: $1,065. After the sale...
Hammer in hand, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement stepped up to a microphone in Nashville's War Memorial Square one morning last week, and loosed a brisk spiel about the merits of a 1951 Buick sedan. No man to shun the public eye or ear, youthful (32) Governor Clement-who is considered likely to run against Estes Kefauver for the senatorial nomination next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well...
Britain's former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 70, who has been ailing all winter, checked into a London hospital for an appendectomy...