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...House of Commons, Clement Attlee, leader of the Opposition, had just gravely accepted Foreign Secretary Eden's announcement of the Southeast Asia agreement. Suddenly, from the farther end of the Labor front bench, burly Nye Bevan came scrambling over his colleagues' feet to reach the dispatch box. Almost stepping on Attlee's toes physically, as he was in fact politically, Bevan flatly defied his party's leader. The Asia agreement, he cried, was "a surrender to American pressure," and it "will be deeply resented by the majority of people in Great Britain." The agreement was framed...
...weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said. "We are all naturally concerned with the prodigious experiments in the Pacific, but ... we would rather have them carried out there than...
...parliamentary private secretary, sent him to India to discuss the bill which was to give India a federal constitution and eventual dominion status. Soon, with the sponsorship of Stanley Baldwin, Butler was promoted to Under Secretary. When Hoare fell ill during debate, Rab took his place at the dispatch box. He knew India, and he knew his bill. Attacked from the left for going too slowly, abused from the right by Winston Churchill and the diehard imperialists for going too far, Rab skillfully stood his ground, pushed the bill through. He was then...
...bless, we beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...reporters refused to believe that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office boy and you'll stay cold. I happen to be a Post-Dispatch reporter and I intend to act like one-a warm one." (The paper paid...