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...London, Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his wife boarded BOAC's new Comet jet airliner and whooshed off to Rhodesia for a two weeks' visit...
...Died. Clement George McCullagh, 47, publisher (since 1936) of the Toronto morning Globe & Mail and (since 1948) the evening Telegram, two of Canada's largest (combined circ. 453,974) newspapers; of a heart attack; in Toronto. McCullagh quit as assistant financial editor of the old Toronto Globe in 1928, quipped that "next time I come in I'll be buying the newspaper." He joined a Bay Street brokerage firm, later formed his own company and became a millionaire by the time he was 30. In 1936 he returned with the money ($1,850,000, backed by Gold Mine...
...Laborites had just come from a private meeting of their own, one of the stormiest in years. Rebel Aneurin Bevan, who is louder about his anti-Americanism than his antiCommunism, was now making no secret of his campaign to wrest the party from Moderate Clement Attlee. The Bevan wing demanded a tough vote of censure against Churchill, against the U.S. bombing raids on the Yalu River power plants (TIME, July 7) and against the U.S. conduct of the Korean war. Attlee, concerned for Anglo-American solidarity, adamantly refused to join the movement. He favored only a mild motion censuring Churchill...
...this time the hostility did not stop at the left. Winston Churchill, embarrassed and angered by the U.S. failure to consult him in advance of the air raids, made only fitful attempts to douse the diplomatic blaze, and in the main debate he pointedly took no part. Quiet, colorless Clement Attlee, no enemy of the U.S., was so worried over the growing Bevanite strength in his own camp that he dare not leave the issue to them, and solemnly led his whole party into a posture of qualified hostility to the U.S. ally. "Her Majesty's government...ought...
Already beginning to think of the future and their lives ahead of them, '27 stopped a moment to elect the most successful and popular of their number to permanent class posts and Commencement honors. Winners of the December elections were: Leo Francis Daley, First Marshal; Clement D. Coady, Second Marshal; John Burke, secretary; Frederick Vanderbilt Field, treasurer; Dwight Chapman Jr., Orator; Geoffrey Gates, Ivy Orator; Pierpcnt Stackpole, Poet; Ambrose Keeley, Odist; Richard Flood, Chorister...