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...Washington, nearly a week was lost in getting started on the new drafts of manpower and the wrenching of the economy that would be necessary to meet the new crisis. The President spent most of the week conferring with Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee (see below). Their muted communiqué was the only authoritative word heard out of Washington in answer to the black headlines from the front...
...katydids began on Monday; Washington shrilled with their guesses and contradictions. That day on the dot of 4, small and anonymous-looking in an unpressed grey suit, the Prime Minister of Britain walked into the White House and shook hands with the President. A few minutes later, Clement Attlee and Harry Truman strode down the corridor and into the green-draped Cabinet Room where Franklin Roosevelt had consulted with Winston Churchill in other crisis days...
When all was said & done, the communiqué reflected the situation of allies who had agreed to disagree and still remain friends. Harry Truman had not brought Clement Attlee over to his views, although he had reassured him on some points; Attlee had not brought Truman around to his views, although the President had been reassured that Britain wanted to stand by the U.S. The talks and the communiqué also indicated an apparent disposition on Mr. Truman's part to search for some area of negotiation with Red China, though clearly he was not ready to toss...
...night last week, he addressed himself to an uncomfortable chore-criticizing the President's daughter. He had just heard Margaret Truman's Washington concert. In a sense, it had been a triumphal occasion: the hall had been packed with Washington bigwigs, including both her father and Clement Attlee; Soprano Truman had looked radiant on the stage and had drawn waves of friendly applause...
...Brash Russell Birdwell, pressagent, bought a full-page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to clobber Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee in plain view of impressionable movie moguls. "He conies-this socialist of a beggar government . . . with an umbrella borrowed from Chamberlain to warn the President that we must withdraw from Korea-to hell with our brave kids . . . and to invite butchers of our wounded boys to seats at the U.N. . . . America will go it alone!" The British consul-general in Los Angeles wrote a letter in reply to suggest politely that Birdwell keep cool...