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Winston Churchill does not mellow with age; he gets more richly crusty. His brilliantly feathered shafts find a favorite target in able but colorless Clement Attlee, whom Churchill once described as a nice, modest little man "who had a good deal to be modest about." Last week the New Statesman and Nation reported that, after Attlee had ably replied to some Churchill needling in the House of Commons, Churchill had remarked: "Feed a grub on royal jelly, and it may turn out to be a queen...
...Independence Day, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee presented to the House of Commons an Indian independence bill. It was, said the bespectacled, scholarly Earl of Listowel, last Secretary of State for India, a "nice, neat, tidy little bill." The bill was certainly neater than the mess Indians will try to clear up before the British leave on August...
...Clement Attlee. 5. Winston Churchill...
...Duke of Windsor, on his stopover in Britain (en route to the south of France), paid a quiet call on Prime Minister Clement Attlee at No. 10 Downing Street, stayed 40 minutes, departed by the back door. The inside dopesters concluded (as they did last year, when the Duke also visited the P.M. and left by the back door) that Windsor would presently have a job with the Empire. Four days later everybody was still waiting, ears hopefully cocked...
...mountaineers of De Flue's native Sachseln began saying prayers to him. According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...