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...House of Commons, Tory Earl Winterton asked Prime Minister Clement Attlee if he thought that the government should not try to impress the British public with the fact that ". . . an American force, greatly outnumbered and outgunned, fighting with the accustomed gallantry of the American and British armies in such a situation ... is the only effective opposition to Communist aggression in Korea at present...
...Negroes, who had little to choose between the Senate candidates, were more interested in something that had not happened since Reconstruction days. A Negro, Alfred J. Clement Jr., was running against five-term Congressman L. Mendel Rivers in South Carolina's First District (Charleston). Clement, an official of the respected, Negro-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., had spoken from the same platform as white candidates, had been refused permission only once. When election day came, of course, he wouldn't have a chance. But still...
...timed pamphlet setting forth its attitude toward Western European integration (see below), the British Labor Party had gone far beyond the understandable, if disappointing, caution which the British government had so far displayed toward the Schuman Plan. Despite all of Prime Minister Clement Attlee's subsequent attempts to soften the blow, the Labor Party had finally, bluntly admitted what it had long suggested by its actions: it was dead set against any scheme of European union that was 1) not controlled by Socialists, 2) involved a sacrifice of national sovereignty, i.e., the national Socialist's sovereign right...
...last week, Clement Attlee quietly picked up the morning paper. A minute later he found himself in the most embarrassing how-de-do a British Prime Minister had faced in a long time-the kind of situation that a Socialist would hardly wish even on his worst capitalist enemy...
...During the spring, Clement Attlee's Labor government faced and won its first crucial parliamentary test on the government's proposal...