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Prime Minister Clement Attlee told a packed House of Commons last week what the government proposed to do about defense. Said Attlee: "We, in common with our Allies of the North Atlantic pact, were approached by the United States . . . and we were asked what we could undertake. Our reply was that it was physically possible for us to undertake a program which would . . . increase defense expenditure to a total of ?3,600,000,000 [$10,080,000,000] in the next three years...
Churchill recalled that one of his earlier suggestions for strengthening the defenses of Western Europe had been dismissed as "irresponsible" by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Said Churchill sardonically, "Perhaps it is better to-be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong." Under Attlee's Labor government, charged Churchill, Britain's defense policy had been characterized mainly by "disconnection of thought and action...
...Statesman's position as a kind of Chamberlain-of-the-left has endeared it to pacifist-minded intellectuals and greying Socialists who loved Russia in their youth, but it raises the hackles of most leaders of the Labor Party. When Prime Minister Clement Attlee was asked what publication he most disliked, he snapped: "The New Statesman...
Britain and the U.S. are having a serious difference over Formosa. Last week Clement Attlee brought it right into the open. In a public statement, the Prime Minister drew a careful line between U.N. action in Korea, which Britain supports, and U.S. action in Formosa, which Britain opposes. Added Attlee, obviously for the ears of China's Communist regime: "I think that is understood in China...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee went on the radio last week to tell the people of Britain about the war in Korea. Attlee called for increased production of armaments, for more troops and for constant vigilance against Communist infiltration at home...