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...been for Clement Attlee, the trip might have been just another junket. But 71-year-old Clem Attlee, who had been Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51) and might be again, decided to go himself. Britons never forget that Attlee was the man who, in 1947, ordered Britain to rearm against the threat of Communism, who with these words sent British troops into Korea in 1950 to repel Communist aggressors: "They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy...
...Liberal Party spokesman warned Attlee & Co. that they were treading "on very hot bricks." London's Economist scolded the former Prime Minister sharply for "serving the purposes of a [hostile | propaganda machine" (see box), and Attlee's own onetime Minister of State, Hector McNeil, denounced the junket as both "highly irresponsible and ill-timed...
London's influential and liberal Economist had a few words of parting advice for ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his fellow Socialists as they set forth on their junket to Communist Peking. Excerpts...
...very day she was due to take off for a month's junket through Russia, by sufferance of the Soviet government, Eleanor Roosevelt abruptly called off her expedition. Said she: "It would have been impossible for me to do an adequate reporting job . . . without the assistance of a trained magazine journalist or of a man who could speak and read the Russian language." Without stomach for "being at the complete mercy of [a Soviet] interpreter," Mrs. Roosevelt added: "I feel that the Soviet officials, in not granting a visa for a reporter to accompany me, are trying to force...
...affaires to London. All over the House there were murmurs of approval. Laborite Desmond Donnelly rose to remark that here at last was "long-delayed justification of the initiative originally taken by Ernest Bevin in 1950"; Socialists cheered, and Clement Attlee, who is leaving in August on a junket to Peking, nodded his approval...