Word: clemente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later Churchill handed His Majesty a list of his new Ministers, all familiar Tory faces but for a few equally familiar National Liberals and nonparty men who had served in the coalition.* Conspicuously absent from this "caretaker" government were Labor and Liberal stalwarts like Clement Attlee (formerly Deputy Prime Minister) and Sir Archibald Sinclair (formerly Minister for Air), who preferred to cross the Commons floor to the opposition benches. The government which had brought Britain through the war frorn the dark days of Dunkirk to the Nazi surrender at Reims, had become past history. Their future government...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
Indians and Indians. The Top of the Mark, the Mark Hopkins' famed skyline cocktail room, was an international tippling spot. Viscount and Lady Cranborne drank Old Fashioneds, Earl and Lady Halifax Scotch & soda, Clement Attlee plain soda water...
...driven the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister [Mrs. Clement Attlee] out to die in the snow, or the Minister of Labor [Ernest Beyin] had kept the Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden] in exile for a great many years, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson] had shot at and wounded the Secretary of State for War [Sir James Grigg] or the head of one or the other of the spending departments - if we who sit here together had all backbitten and double-crossed each other while pretending to work together, if we had all put our own group...
...line of foxholes, manned by the 101st's paratroopers. Stationed nearby were groups of tanks and tank destroyers. Just outside the town was a last-gasp inner defense circle, manned largely by the stragglers. Slight (5 ft. 8 in., 135 lb.), salty Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, the 101st's acting commander charged with holding Bastogne, called them his "Team Snafu." Inside the town was a reserve force of tanks and tank destroyers, to dash out against a major enemy attack. "Tony" McAuliffe called this force his "Fire Brigade...