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...James Clement Dunn, 60, U.S. Ambassador to Italy since 1946. Slim, impeccably tailored, a conservative, wealthy man (his wife is the former Mary Armour of the meat-packing clan), he has been in the State Department for 33 years, has served as assistant to three Secretaries of State, as chief of the Division of European Affairs. Born in Newark, N.J., he became a practicing architect before entering the State Department as a clerk. Dunn's main job has been to keep Italy from falling under Communist control, by cajoling, chivying and maneuvering the. Italian government, without laying himself open...
Churchill seemed to be endorsing several other Bevanite ideas. For one thing, he now regards war as remoter than when he was lambasting Clement Attlee's defense plans: "I cannot feel that the danger of war is so great today as it was during the Berlin blockade of 1948." He also professed to be concerned, as Bevan is, by the "great and ever-growing U.S. atomic bomber base in East Anglia." U.S. airmen occupy 13 major airfields in Britain. Five of them, in East Anglia, are equipped to service strategic bombers. Churchill implied that by providing British bases...
Bargaining Point. White with anger, Clement Attlee leaped to his feet in protest. "Be careful about this," he warned. "We agreed to the stationing of American bombers in this country . . . but never specifically as a base for using the atomic bomb against Russia." Churchill's retort: "That is the impression which, however mistakenly, they [the Americans] seem to have derived...
...Clement Attlee in defeat still stuck to his promise to avoid "opposing for the sake of opposition." But his boys would be boys...
Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...