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Prime Minister Clement Attlee's arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps...
...some members of the President's Cabinet and by the small retinue of advisers accompanying the British Prime Minister. Harry Truman spoke earnestly of his desire that the U.S. should have a "foreign policy of the people" which would fit into a "worldwide and continuous peace program." Agreeing, Clement Attlee said: "What we are out for today is to try and devise a world policy of the common...
Navy's yacht, that afternoon the Messrs. Truman, Attlee and King cruised up & down the Potomac and resumed their talks. The atomic bomb was the overriding topic, and word leaked out that Clement Attlee had a fresh proposal. It was a compromise between the "share" and the "don't share" proponents...
Last week Socialist Clement Attlee broke the precedent. Announcing to the House of Commons that Britain's World War II commanders would get no money rewards, he said: "It would not be in the spirit of the times...
...answers, but they had some modest ambitions. They heard their presiding officer, Britain's fiery little Minister of Education "Red Ellen" Wilkinson, suggest that if England and France could just agree on how to describe the Battle of Waterloo in their history books, it would help. They heard Clement Attlee's worthy bromides: "In your hands rests here and now the opportunity of establishing a common front against ignorance...