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...Liberal Party, out of power for thirty years, is offering the voters a "middle way" between conservatism and socialism. Clement Davies, the Liberal head, has been asking Conservative voters: "Would you rather have the Liberals or the Laborites?" and Labor voters: "Would you rather have the Liberals or the Tories?" Though the logic of this argument is undeniable, it is unlikely that the Liberals will carry many of the 478 constituencies in which they are entered...
Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties permitted, a trim 1936 Hillman sedan whisked them away from the cares of Parliament and the chores of suburban housekeeping, with comely, curly-haired Violet Attlee at the wheel, her husband tucked in beside her in the front seat and the back well-stocked with picnic fare...
...last week, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill sat down in a front pew in St. Paul's Cathedral for special pre-campaign services conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The day's lesson, from St. Luke 6: 39: "And He spake a parable unto them. Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch...
Britain's once famed and powerful Liberal Party, which produced such parliamentary lions as William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Asquith and David Lloyd George, has not played a decisive role in British politics since 1924. Nevertheless, a recent Gallup poll showed that 38% of the British electorate, weary of Clement Attlee's Socialism, distrustful of Winston Churchill's Conservatism, said that they would vote Liberal if they thought the party had a chance of winning. Last week both Socialists and Tories were ardently wooing the Liberals, and some observers thought that the third party's role might...
Walter B. Teague, president of the Society, is scheduled to open the series next week. Later forum speakers include David Chapman, designer for Montgomery Ward, Harold Van Doren of Beech Aircraft, and Theodore Clement, head of Eastman Kodak's style division...