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...terms of independence (mostly because he was not given elastic bargaining powers), but left behind a wealth of good will. Churchill made him Leader of the House of Commons, later Minister of Aircraft Production. At war's end, the Labor Party received the renegade into its ranks again. Clement Attlee made him president of the Board of Trade, and when storm clouds gathered last September, Minister for Economic Affairs...
...Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires...
Alexander C. Suczek '50 as Gadshill; Stephen P. Clement '51 as Peto; Arthur Levine '47 as Bardolph; Sherman H. Hawkins '51 as Francis; George A. Clugston '50 as Sheriff; W.F. Scott III '50, William A. Gaston '51, James K. Dow, Jr. '50, Heinz P. Stern '50, Robert D. Ouimet '51, Robert P. Hubbard '51, and Lucian C. E. Parlata...
...Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison, Hugh Dalton, or Aneurin Bevan, fight it out among them and then tell Attlee what to do? They were having their fights, and the outcome would in part determine what Attlee decided. But individually or collectively, they could not tell him what to do. Clement Attlee embodies all the little virtues of little Englishmen. Their power is his power. Moreover, Attlee is not insignificant and ineffective in all things...
...party, he is a formidable figure who knows all there is to know about party management. This know-how is crucial in the Labor Party, which is an insecure amalgam of two parties-the trade unionists, who have the votes, and the theoretical socialists, who supply the agitation. Clement Attlee's strength is his neutral smallness. All the big men around him belong to one side or the other. Attlee belongs to both and to neither...