A 1937 letter written by Communist leader Mao Zedong to the-then future British Prime Minister Clement Attlee has gone under the hammer for £500,000. The letter, which called for the Labour leader’s ...
(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...
Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph: PA Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician ...
A 90-year-old man who was taken in as a child refugee by Clement Attlee after fleeing from the Nazis has met the former prime minister's granddaughter for the first time. Paul Willer said he and Mr ...
Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...
Clement Attlee was the most consistently underestimated politician of modern times. Bald, mustachioed, unassuming, quiet, as averse to grandiloquence and grandstanding as Churchill was addicted to ...
A Jewish refugee who was rescued from the Nazis and secretly sheltered in Britain by Clement Attlee has revealed he was 'showered with love' by the former Prime Minister's family, as he met his ...
Clement Attlee, Britain’s post-war Prime Minister and the man who saw through the final days of Indian Independence, was once described by Winston Churchill as 'a sheep in sheep’s clothing'. Churchill ...
Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year, when ...
When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were indeed jobs ...
Jeremy Corbyn prefers the collective approach to leadership also favoured by Clement Attlee The idea that just one person should be entitled to determine the policy of his or her political party is a ...
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