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"My sharpest memory of the week is of that official, so tired that his voice trembled, quietly telling the inside story of disaster in his cold unlighted office. That night when I got home for a late supper, I was scared witless by a BBC voice saying down the hall: 'Coalition ... coalition ... coalition' and thought for a wild moment that our limb had been sawed off. It was the report of Attlee's speech, confirming all our dope that coalition was unthinkable."