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...Cover) To mark an event which will put his name in the history books for generations, Clement Attlee slipped one afternoon last week into a crowded room of London's India House. When flashbulbs flared, he grimaced and ducked behind his wife. Politely, the photographers went away, and the Prime Minister who had given India its freedom stood quietly sipping his tea in the midst of an austere celebration.* At one point, Attlee chatted with Tory...
Anthony Eden. They agreed that electioneering was' hard work. Attlee added: "I like my jigsaw puzzles in the evening." Despite his self-effacement, Clement Attlee's mark was all over the Indian In dependence Day tea party. The tea came in thick cups because Britain's fine china must be exported. The cream on the cakes was synthetic because Britain must keep her imports down. Under their gossamer saris, many of the Indian women present wore homely sweaters because Britain's coal must not be wasted...
...Britain's Labor Party went to the hustings in 1945 with an election program titled, "Let Us Face the Future." Hopeful Britons swept Clement Attlee and the Laborites in with a 195-seat majority in Parliament. Last week, as Britain prepared for another general election, agile Laborite publicity men were right on hand with a new manifesto. The title this time: "Let Us Win Through Together." One of the authors wryly admitted, "It's a little long, but we needed to say all that...
...last week, Prime Minister Clement Attlee summoned his ministers to the white-pillared cabinet room at No. 10 Downing Street to announce that Britain's next general election would be held...
Nominees for Director-at-Large are: Alan J. Lowry '13, Paul M. Mazur '14; Clement K. Stodder '17; James Coggeshall, Jr. '18; Cass Canfield '19; Arnold Horween '20; Charles C. Buell '23; William A. Coolidge '24; John H. Pratt '30 Charles F. Adams, Jr. '32; and Thomas W. Stephenson...