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Next day. pale, tight-lipped Prime Minister Clement Attlee said: "There has been a prohibition of all major strategic materials." British shipments to Red China, he insisted, had not included "warships, aircraft or anything of that sort . . ." They did include "bicycles, perambulators ... wire mattresses, nails, tacks, rivets, manhole covers . . ." But he admitted there was no absolute embargo on rubber exports, only a restriction which held shipments to 1948-49 level. And that restriction went into force only 13 days before Chinese troops poured into battle against the gallant Gloucesters...
...London's Royal Academy opened its show of 1,253 mostly academic efforts with a banquet. Clement Attlee was guest of honor. Said he: "So often I find myself in acute disagreement with the art critics. So often I cannot appreciate what I am told I ought to admire." Exhibitions for the festival, he said with smiling satisfaction, were chosen by panels of artists. "Their choice may not commend itself to everybody, but at all events it cannot be attributed to the government...
...hospital," said Mrs. Clement Attlee of her husband, "he has spent a lot of time with jigsaw puzzles. You know, jigsaw puzzles are fine for making you forget your worries...
...Bevan, leader of Labor's left wing, which Prime Minister Clement Attlee has tried long and hard to appease, walked out after charging in effect that Attlee was betraying Labor party principles, that the government would split and collapse as Ramsay MacDonald...
...Majesty's Prime Minister Clement Attlee says, there is a "new China." There is also a new Butterfield & Swire. Recently the company advertised a ship scheduled to sail from Hong Kong and arrive at Swatow on the south China coast by April n. Red Chinese authorities, in a huff because they had given permission for the ship to dock on April 13 only, refused to advance the entry date. What was more, they demanded a public apology from the company...