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Prime Minister Clement Attlee had been overcautious in making a moderate campaign that had kept the fiery .Bevan under wraps...
...Downing Street, Violet Attlee had a hot bath and went to bed. Clement Attlee read a detective novel for a while and then he too retired for the night. Next morning, after a go-minute cabinet meeting, Clement Attlee had an announcement: despite his narrow majority, he would carry on the "King's government." Morgan Phillips agreed. Said he: "We can't run away...
...TIME [Feb. 6] says: "By temperament, training and conviction, Clement Attlee was as far from being either a spendthrift or a dictator as any man could...
...long last you have seen fit to pay a tribute to Clement Attlee. Like our own General Marshall, he was one of the gyroscopic personalities who helped lead us to victory during World War II without ever receiving his full measure of praise...
Labor's leaders were resentful at the injection of a world question into a campaign that had been comfortably domestic. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Churchill's proposal as a political "stunt." Prime Minister Clement Attlee faced old Winston's challenge: "We are ready and eager to discuss with Russia, the United States, Canada and all other nations ways and means of dealing with this menace...