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...their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent, sampling a brave but pallid collation of austerity sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. Through it all stood friendly, broad-shouldered Ambassador Averell Harriman, shaking hands with each...
...songs, wears caps instead of hats and loves his family), Gottwald had worked and waited for this moment. There was no doubt about how the new tenant would like to run things. Communist Gottwald's philosophy of politics might well have been inspired by the words of St. Clement (Rome's fourth Pope), after whom his pious family had named him: "Discipline and subordination are necessary as in an army . . . for man is nothing...
Prime Minister Clement Attiee told a silent, disappointed meeting that nationalization of industry (see below) must not be pushed too fast ("We must not overload the legislative and administrative machine...
...accepting Chinese ways and customs would help win China to Rome, then those ways and customs would be accepted. It was not a new idea. In the 17th Century, Pope Paul V gave Jesuit missionaries permission to say Mass in Chinese.* But the permission was soon withdrawn, and Pope Clement XI later forbade some of the native customs which the Jesuits had allowed converts to retain...
Robert B. Clement...