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Attlee (the Enigma)

sums up

Attlee (the Romantic)

By Beverley Baxter, M.P.

HE

Snowden's Sphinx has from Mr Speaker's gallery, Attlee, "against

urging

little pedantry the

and MacDonald's spoken, the Enigma lently

Christian not to be afraid of the vanity." hos explained. In Big Bad Lion. fact, Mr Clement Attlee has told his life story in auto- Biographical form."

romances.

pur

Despite a genius for under- Mr Altlee cannot statement, completely suppress the roman- ticism of his remarkable career. That he should follow triumphant Caesar in 1045, and

Ilut does our author pause in later And himself threatened iris story to rhapsodise on his from within by a burly Cassius romance? Here is how he tells from Wales, would inflame any normal man's sense of drama.

WHO LIFTED THE

T

SAFETY CATCH?

BY CHARLES

WINTOUR

"ebrogated"

In 1948, though other parts of the Quebec agreement were con-

So the question to be resolved tinued in a modified form.

HERE are three big veto on the use by America of that the veto was

issuca in the nuclear weapons, Socialist row about the Quebec agree is this ment on the atom bomb. These

the issue of are secrecy,

the the issue of veto, und the ізнис of loyalty.

Let us look at the facts. After the WAT the Americana did not wish share their atom secrets

Whether the Quebec voto was "removed," "cancelled," Or "obrogated," it was dead.

"WHO LIFTED THE SAFETY CATCH?"

And

the here

Confusion great.

where and

cerned 1* greater than in the mind of Mr Alliee.

For when to the Socialist

with Britain. Equally Mr Attlee did not share his own A-secrets with his col- leagues.

For the revelations made by Churchill about the secret agree- ments fell on the Socialists as a most disagreeable surprise.

MT

nut

13

And is con- must

so far as this country

the responsibility I

lie with Mr Atlee,

Churchill charged Government with

greeing "to abandon these all

portant provisions

cautions...

The issue of loyally can be quickly disposed of. Mr Altice became indignant et Churchill's charges in the House. He made na pre- o big point of the fact that in MIT Attlee rose the debate he had never men- and uttered these words:-

tion tioned the Quebec agreement and giving away the industrial We did not abandon any of advantages. "I was too loyal," these agreements: We curried he said to the accompaniment of them on with the United States loud Socialist cheers, Government. Unfortunately, the Senate passed the McMahon Act, which prevented them carrylag out those agreements."

This the

CURIOUS

now

In

What Mr Attlee seems 10 DUT new oviderice ta hove forgotten

Davailable on this point, American Administration was

his autobiography Mr Attico re- DEVET prevented

from carry furs to the Quebec agreement, King on the vetu clouse of

Even senior ex-Ministers in

Altlee's Cabinet di know what Mr Attice was doing The New Statesman has said that "Judging by the comment of ex-Ministers after last Mon- day's debate it 19

doubtful whether even the Defence Com- mittee was informed of the terms of the new {Attlee] agreement."

Certainly Mr Strachey, д former War Minister, speaking after Churchill, gave such

a shaky exposition of the situa- tion that it seems unlikely he knew anything about either the Qurber agreement or the subsc- queut changes,

So most of the Socialists had no conception of the atrung position that Churchill had won for Britain 17 his wartime (Discussions with the American President.

They did nol realise that under Clause I of the ugres- ment Britala and Americo had ingreed not to use the bomb against third Darties without each other's consent.

MISLED?

not know that THEY did

America had agreed to "full and effective interchange of information and ideas.'

And they were never informed of the modifications to that agreement made by Mr Attlee.

Contrast this secrecy main- tained by the Socialist leader in time of peace with Churchill's conduct in war.

aware

Informaljon.

was still The veto

the McMahon Act

after

the Quebec agreement by the and says "the Industrial use of McMahon Act. For the MeMahon the bomb had been specifically Act only restricted exchange of conceded to the United States."

How strange

that Mr Atticu should force

mention the industrial had aspect of the Quebec agreement while omitting its most power- And ful safeguard, the velo. how curious that My Attleo should precn himacli on not mentioning the industrial agree-

In the ment

debate when hc

that knew

he had already made a disclosure about it in his book.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

H-BON!

| LATEST =

"I never thought the day would come when I would look to the Budget for light, escapist reading!"

Churchl's safety been passed. catch was still pressed down.

BLI

There is another revelation in the autoblography which some people may find damaging to Mr Alice's reputation. Ho attacks the "current iden that International questions can bo settled by intimate talks between a few leading statesmen.“

But in the debate Mr Attlee actually proposed the motion asking for high-lovel talks between Churchill, Eisenhower, and Malenkov. What seemed so undesirable when Churchill proposed it has suddenly become an act of high states- manship. Why?

INDEBTED

BELIEVE it is right that the problem of the hydrogen bomb should be discussed soberly and dispassionately. But it is also right that It should be

with explains why certain discussed

the fullest American senators possible knowledge of events

the when they leading up to outraged

current

The British people are there-

This Mr Morrison told the Com- mons that "of course we were powerful

IL of

Quebec were the thuse of us who happened to leam of the veto position. agreement]. were entitled to know."

early in 1947. They made it plain to President Truman that Now, presumably after inspect failure to revise the agreement fore indebted to Churchill for And they must ing the Bles, Mr Morrison says would have a "disastrous effect his revelations.

and that the on

consideration hope that he will now obtain congressional he was in error

the necessary American ngree- War Cabinet was never informed of the Marshall plan."

ment to publish the 1948 agree- about

either agreement,

There ment which Mr Attice has kept before or afterwards.

the so secret for so long.

the

10

was

In

From that point the book It is an historic fact that the takes on the familiar story of marriages of

Jast three Munich, the war. and the first Prime Ministers-Chamberlain, Socialist Government in British Churchill and

Attlee-have history that had a majority over

What happened then? been real and enduring all.

La Nor was there any question

ambiguity We have seen three who would be Prime Minister. I believe that Mr Morrison's Vandenberg Papers. "In January wives as nearly perfect as it is

Mr Attlee's conduct in this original recollection was correct 1948

reached agreement good for thern to be.

When It was seen that 4

may yet be «x- and that the files have misled with Britain Pr Convital matter had booted

him.

Washington to remove the re- plained satisfactorily. grateful electorate

out, and Mr Attlee

striction Churchill

himself Prime For at the end of the Quebec

But reviewing the known facts. actually found

bob." Minister, he might well have conference Churchill cabled Mr.

he appears to have been accre- been excused if, in his auto-Attlee and the War Cabinet Senator Hickenlooper, who has tive In action; tortuous in blography, he paused to gaze saying: "Everything here has seen the 1948 agreement, adds diplomacy; muddied in explana-

We have secured that "cancelled" the Quebec tion; upon his reflection in the mirror. gone off well.

a settlement of a number of agreement. hitherto Intractable questions, Southeast Command,

It:

But Mr Attice, as self. revelationist, is positively sub- normal.

F1

to

demo-

We

"A week or two after our return I asked Miss Millar to go football match with me.

What When the day came the ground

were his thoughts? football and What was it like to be cloaked was too hard for Hv learned practical

went to Richmond Park in history? And what had the etncy as the fourth son and the instead. During the afternoon new hostess of Downing Street seventh child in a family of

I proposed and had the good to say to her victorious lord? eight. There were many cousins fortune to be nccepted." as well, and it is interesting to note a strong tendency for the girls to become missionaries and the boys to take to the law. It

might be soid that Clement Attlee had yearnings in both directions,

But Di Oxford he Was "far too shy to speak in the Union Over and over again

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In this modest book one finds

This was in 1021, but already the confession: "I was painfully Clement Attlee had proved him- ahy." Even when he writies of

self

a man of courage and Oxford he almost hides his real affection for it in the

prim Integrity. reticence of his language,

Mr Attlee describes No. 10 and points out that it needed some alterations, Then he adds: "We settled in and found it very comfortable. Actually I more of my family during the period than ever before as now

was living on the job.

No Criticism

JOW

And πάν

on the

115C

of the

Mr Truman

has

and contradictcry in

conduct.

He emerges from the H-bomb 0.., tho Tubs Alloys, and French Com- clinched the matter by saying debate with diminished standing. mittee recognition." (Tube Alloys was the code name for atomi bomb research).

MOST SECRET

IAN anyone expect that Churchill would have men- toned this agreement on Tube Alloys in the cable if his col- Ienguca had not known what was meant by Tube Alloys?

And can anyone believe that In this book there are nofollowing this cable the mem- purple passages, no indiscretions, born of the War Cabinet (which по character assassinations, included Mr Bevin and Mr In spite of the discouragement except in the case of Snowden Morrison) made

inquiry of the recruiting sergeants he and MacDonald, no unfair about the form of the agree Loved Poetry

Joined the Army in the 1914 war criticism of public figures and ment when Churchill returned? and fought at Gallipoli, Looking not much praise. Ho pays back on that Churchillion ven- genuine tributes, howover, to It must be remembered that Emost "Tube Alloys" was the most surprisingly, he loved ture which might have altered Stafford Cripps $15.00 poetry. Perhaps in the voluptu- the whole course of the war in Bevin, perhaps on the principle secret of secret things. Maybe he found our favour, Mr Attlee blames of praising men when they are it was considered wise to make 25.00 Quanes, of poetry

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"Elderly and hide-bound Yet, lacking warmth and Cabinet, low he says no more than

und magnetism, this "I went into chambers in generals," he writes, "were not eloquence which Sir L F. Dickens, son the men to push through an Clement Attlee stands today as The suggestion that Churchill

his adventure of this kind." And the indestructible leader of the did not inform

Cabinet of the novelist, was the KC.”

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So on the laman of secrecy Mr Attice was mora reticent thari Churchill at a time when security mattered less and col- lective responsibility more.

He does not state this in his

Now for the even more im- book, but as one who hopes that portant issue of the veto. The Clement Attlee will break his hullabaloo about the H-bomb

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