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...Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians...
...atmosphere hot with the steam of seething tempers, the riven ranks of British Labor met last week in a parliamentary committee room to patch up their difference-or open the rift irrevocably. For once, Party Leader Clement Attlee had thrown his native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
...only to look across the way to see how discomfiting the whole subject was to Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. There, down front, sat Clement Attlee's ex-ministers, anxious to criticize but handicapped by the fact that the defense program was, after all, the one they began while in office. On the back benches sat the left-wing rebels led by Aneurin Bevan, spoiling for trouble...
...Socialist meeting that he would not promise to get in line in the future. The Bevanites would try to persuade the rest of Labor to join them in fighting Toryism, said Bevan. "But if we cannot go on together, we shall go on alone." Presumably neither Nye Bevan nor Clement Attlee wanted a divorce, for such a split might mean a Tory government for a long time to come. But pride and strong wills were at issue. Even if there was a compromise, the intraparty cold war was sure to rage...
...down on the number of backs he slapped, adopted an air of studied nonchalance. Later he scored his greatest triumph to date, by carrying the affirmative on the question: "That this house has confidence in Mr. Churchill's administration of domestic affairs." Opposed to him as guest speaker: Clement Attlee himself...