Word: clemente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
...House of Commons, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, pale and plainly disquieted, officially broke the bad news, lamely admitted that Britain had not been prepared for it. Other Allied nations had seen it coming, but not Britain. It had come, the Prime Minister said, "without consultation and prior discussion...
...London. Another even more important change was apparently in the offing. At a Washington press conference last week, Jimmy Byrnes went out of his way to praise Assistant Secretary James Clement Dunn...
...issue was Hong Kong, Britain's Chinese crown colony. Did Britain mean to keep it or give it up? First socialist Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin answered bluntly: "We have taken steps to receive the surrender of the Japanese forces in Hong Kong." Then Prime Minister Clement Attlee made the matter crystal-clear: "Plans for re-establishing British administration in the colony are fully prepared...
...door Prime Minister Clement Attlee paused to chat with his good friend, the ex-Prime Minister. The day before, the King had asked Churchill to greet the cheering crowds with him from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Churchill declined; since he was not in office, it would be unconstitutional. When Prime Minister Attlee heard of it, he also declined the honor which, he said, was rightfully Churchill...