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Conscience v. Party Line. The immediate issue was capital punishment for murder. But to the House of Lords, and to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government, there was a larger stake. It was the dramatic recurrence of the old feud between the hereditary Lords and the elected Commons...
...Clement Attlee's cabinet had been against abolishing capital punishment, but when the subject came up in the House of Commons (TIME, April 22), the government adopted a hands-off policy and permitted Labor members to vote according to conscience, and not according to party line...
...Employers in Fear." Day after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
...Dana Reed Prize, given for the best piece of writing appearing in an undergraduate publication during the past year, has been awarded to Clement B. Wood, Jr. '47 of Philadelphia, Lowell House, and the Lampoon. Wood received notification by mail yesterday morning...
...Clement Attlee and Ernie Bevin dissociated themselves from this dog-in-the-manger attitude-but they had both been angry when France (which shed its Socialist Premier for a Popular Republican) devalued its currency and permitted free trade in the franc. For one reason, it violated British Socialists' notions of a properly managed currency, and it hurt them worse to discover that it did not seem to hurt France...