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Although warning against undue optimism, Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee could not keep cheerfulness out of his voice last week when he reported to the House of Commons on the war at sea. "July was a good month," he said. Axis merchantmen to the tonnage of 459,000 (92 ships) were sunk, damaged or put out of action. Of these 291,000 tons were hit in the North Sea or the Atlantic; 168,000 tons in the Mediterranean...
...bull cavorting in a china shop was nothing to the stir raised last week when a china merchant lumbered into a bull pen. The china merchant was big, bluff Colonel the Right Honorable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, great-great-great-grandson of the Josiah Wedgwood who founded Britain's famed pottery works. The bull pen was Congress...
...Labor's present Cabinet ministers-Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Hugh Daiton, who did the expelling -Wife Strauss wastes little comradely affection. Bevin and Co. has the refreshing frankness, some of the stylistic verve of a good family fight...
...Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...
...conference there was scarcely more than a murmur against the Government's military or economic conduct. The tone of the Party leaders was set by the fervent rhetoric of Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee, which might well have come from a Conservative mouth: "All members of the Government are absolutely united. . . . There can be no parleying. There is no way out but the destruction of Hitlerism...