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Tennessee: Frank Clement...
...seventh British by-election since Winston Churchill's Tories returned to power. Both sides rolled out their biggest guns: Laborite Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison took to the stump for Labor, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden toured Wycombe's village greens in a soaking rainstorm for the Tories, and Winston Churchill sent a rousing message urging the voters not to be taken in by the "wild caterwaul of abuse...
...Britain's Parliamentary Labor Party faced up to the question that it had so long evaded: What is to be done about the Bevanites? Fears of a party split that would jeopardize Labor's chances in the next British election hung heavy in the air, but to Clement Attlee, back from a squally powwow with Europe's splintery Socialists, the time seemed ripe for a showdown...
Love Your Enemies. At a service conducted by the Archbishop of York in the local parish church the morning before the conference opened, conscientious Clement Attlee read a lesson from St. Luke: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hurt you; bless them that curse you and pray for them that despitefully use you." That afternoon, the party's executive committee met in a session so secret that even the waiters at Morecambe's old-fashioned Grosvenor Hotel were barred. "This is it," muttered one party leader ominously to a friend when the meeting was done...
Throughout the vote, Bevan sat smugly with lips pursed, eyes straight ahead and plump fingers tipped together. Morrison was motionless. Clement Attlee stared into space, lifeless as a wax model...