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From England came the report that Premier Clement Attlee would arrive in Washington Monday and ask that the United States avoid was with China...
However, British informants said yesterday that Prime Minister Clement Attlee will urge President Truman, in their Washington talks starting Monday, to avid war with Red China at all costs. Associates said Attlee believed that this is the only way to preserve western unity...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee pointed out recently that the British government has no constitutional right to ban a public meeting. However, Attlee went on, "we must reserve the right to refuse admittance [to Britain] to those whom we have no desire to entertain." Last week, the government proceeded to exercise that right to the full. Scotland Yard men hurried to Britain's ports and airfields to turn back scores of travelers on their way to Sheffield, busy Yorkshire steel city, to attend the Russian-inspired Second World Peace Congress, a propaganda platform for international Communism...
...Died. Clement Wood, 62, Alabama-born jack-of-all-letters; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Schenectady, N.Y. Wood turned out novels, verse, anthologies, biographies, dozens of miscellaneous volumes. Most durable products: the lyrics of The Glory Road, Short'nin' Bread...
Before long, the world began to hear a good deal about L.S.E. Hundreds of students flocked to hear Philosopher Bertrand Russell, or Sidney Webb himself, lecturing on the Fabian way in his high nasal voice. In 1912 a young man named Clement Attlee joined the faculty to teach social science and administration. Former pupils remember him as a quiet, dry, sometimes boring lecturer, devoted to his subject, who inspired classes only by his meticulous sincerity. Later, other young reformers followed: Philip Noel-Baker, now Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power; onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton...