THE COMMONWEALTH: The Big Brothers

Television cameras, never before allowed inside 10 Downing Street, last week boldly stared at Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the distinguished guests assembled in his white-pillared drawing room. When the public show was over, the representatives of eight Commonwealth countries shifted to Attlee's small businesslike cabinet room, where—out of the world's sight and hearing—they began their fourth conference since the war. They would talk for ten days, discuss every aspect of global strategy affecting the Commonwealth's 570 million people.

Said one conferee: "The atmosphere is that of a bunch of big brothers returning home from...

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