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...plain man had plain words for it. Earnest, uneloquent Clement Attlee had fought in the trenches of the first World War, helped fight the second. Said...
...side of the fence stood Britain, insisting that the Big Three could not run the postwar world as they ran the Allied world of wartime and that UNO, as Clement Attlee said last week, "must become the overriding factor in foreign policy." The British were for true collective security on a world scale...
...Clement Attlee played the firm but friendly host to Holland's Premier Willem Schermerhorn. Guests included British Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker, who had publicly demanded that Indonesians and Dutch get together; Netherlands Minister for Overseas Territories J. H. A. Logemann, who had publicly barred a return of "the extinct past" to the East Indies; Old Etonian Sir Nevile Bland, who as Ambassador to The Hague has the delicate job of relaying British views on how the Dutch should run their empire; Java-born Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the Acting Governor General, fresh from the rebellious East...
...listened to Van Mook, Clement Attlee visibly brightened. By dinner, the atmosphere was almost gay. The host had expected his company to stay three days. But things were going so well that, over coffee, he proposed a late night session to tidy up loose ends. By 3 a.m. the business was done. A vague communiquè cloaked a definite though general plan...
When the Ice Breaks. This was the reason which last week compelled Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee to announce that Newfoundland was to be given another chance at self-government, if the people want...