Word: clemente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom was not Clement Attlee's sole concern. He also wanted to get on better terms with Harry Truman and convince the capitalist U.S. that socialist Britain could be a good and useful friend -especially if Communist Russia turned out to be no friend at all. In both endeavors, he made some progress...
...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...
Winston Churchill's waggery followed Clement Attlee to Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Churchill crack: "Attlee is a sheep in sheep's clothing...
Harry S. Truman was assured a decent exposure at Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in London: Presidential Aide Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan presented Clement Attlee's secretary with an old Truman grey plaid, which the secretary promised to deliverz with a suitable shirt...