Coil & Recoil

With the coiling inclusiveness of a political anaconda, Winston Churchill threw a generous loop over Clement R. Attlee last week. The Prime Minister invited his No. i election opponent and the Labor Party's No. i leader to accompany him to the forthcoming Big Three conference (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he drew the loop tighter. Said Churchill: "We have in these last few years thought alike on the foreign situation." With the general election less than three weeks away, British voters could scarcely miss the point that on foreign policy there was little to choose between Churchill and Attlee.

Snapped Professor Harold J. Laski, leftist chairman of the British Labor Party: if Clement Attlee sat at the Big Three conference, it would be as an observer only; his attendance would not bind the Labor Party to any Big Three decisions. Said Attlee next day in accepting the invitation: "There was never any suggestion that I should go as a mere observer. . . ." The Labor Party scored off the Government in the matter of khaki candidates. A Government (i.e., Conservative) proposal that service candidates be permitted to wear their uniforms at the hustings brought on an electric storm in Parliament (the Conservatives have more officer candidates than the Laborites). Later the Government dropped the proposal. Result: all candidates will be in mufti. Hecklers may wear uniforms.

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