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...Clement Attlee was in a fighting mood. He said acidly: "There is to be, so he [Churchill] says, yet another election on this issue [i.e., steel]. How many elections are we to have? The Right Honorable Gentleman has had two elections on this. He has been beaten both times. Is every industry to be kept in a state of suspense until the Right Honorable Gentleman wins a general election...
...Disreputable Transaction." In Parliament next day Gordon-Walker found himself faced with others who felt much the same. "One dislikes interference of this kind in matters between man and wife," said the Liberals' Clement Davies. "A disreputable transaction," rumbled Tory Winston Churchill. The government, refusing to publish its special commission's report, offered no answer beyond the statement that they "viewed with grave concern the danger which recognition [of Seretse] would cause." What His Majesty's ministers refused to admit was readily added by Seretse himself. "It has been firmly believed at home for a long time...
...King's Speech from the Throne was prepared by Clement Attlee's Labor government, and constituted Labor's statement of policy for the present session. It was mild, conciliatory, and-perhaps prophetically-quite short; it took only twelve minutes to deliver...
Brown put up the traditional show of reluctance to accept the highest honor that can be paid to a commoner. First he smilingly shook his fist in Kirkwood's face, then allowed himself to be dragged reluctantly to the Speaker's dais. Prime Minister Clement Attlee warned Brown that the parliamentary weather might be "stormy with fair intervals," or "unsettled...
...Clement Attlee's new cabinet was scarcely 24 hours old before one of its members was under heavy attack from Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard and his morning Daily Express. The object of Beaverbrook's wrath was bright, balding John Strachey, 48, whom Attlee had just promoted from Minister of Food to Secretary of State for War. The Standard called Strachey "an avowed Communist [who] has never publicly retracted his belief in Communism." The attack touched an exposed nerve: the British public has been shocked by the laxity of military intelligence services disclosed by the espionage...