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...fury of his assault left him wide open for counterblows. Prim Prime Minister Clement Attlee answered in the most effective political speech of his 23 years in the House. Smiled Attlee: "The burden of Mr. Churchill's remarks is this: 'Why, when you are elected to carry out a Socialist program, don't you carry out a Conservative program?'" Churchill sat quietly while the House cheered Attlee...
...weeks, younger Tory M.P.s had sat angrily silent while Clement Attlee's Labor Government poured in a barrage of bills and plans for the socialization of Britain. They had waited & waited for their own Party leaders, for Winston Churchill himself to go on the offensive. Off their back benches the young Tories had not been silent. Some were bitterly outspoken. In the Tory Daily Mail young, Tory-reformist Quintin Hogg wrote of the Conservative "Rip van Winkles." One day last week Conservative prestige hit a new low and simmering young Tory dissatisfaction reached the boiling point. In Commons Deputy...
...Potsdam, Truman had not been overly impressed by cautious Clement Attlee. In Washington they saw much more of each other, got on very pleasantly. Future meetings might go still better. But there was no sign of the gusty, personal intimacy which had grown up between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Churchill used to speak expansively to U.S. audiences of "the President and I." Attlee said "your President" and "President Truman." Significantly, Attlee left not one good anecdote behind...
...Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...
...like a visit from a seldom-seen and well-loved cousin. On his way from the conference at Washington, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Great Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee stopped by to pay his respects to Canadians. As hosts will, Canadians fed him well, showed him a good time...