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...Last week [TIME, July 30], in "A Letter from the Publisher," TIME was boasting that you keep a reserve of portraits of "49 probable future newsmakers." Ahem. Did you not expect Clement Attlee to become British Prime Minister...
Truman now had something to discuss - through diplomatic channels. Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly would have been on the world telephones, chinning with "Uncle Joe" and talking guardedly with that mild, new quality at No. 10 Downing Street, Clement Attlee. Lacking telephone connections with China, a spate of personal dispatches would have flown between Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt...
...world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. The kindly physicists handed plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) the fissioned atom,.and said: You have to decide who owns it; who can kill whom with it, and under what circumstances. How fast is it to be developed? Certainly, it will change the world. You have to make laws...
...Churchill had to leave the building by a side door, come in another door to a little anteroom. Truman and Stalin were in other anterooms. Complicated signals set them all in coordinated motion. Stalin would roll in with his bearish gait; Churchill plodded; Clement Attlee walked sedately ; Truman almost skipped in (which was all right because his anteroom was just a little farther away...
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party barrel for experienced talent...