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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Attlee had an image. A wise man, he made his image rather like the real thing – quiet, cricket-loving, terse, a suburban bank manager – and it resonated with the times. By Francis Beckett Clement ...
Clement Attlee was one of the great sons of the LSE, and went on to become the Prime Minister of the most radical left wing government in British history. Yet he was looked down upon by many academics ...
One is the grandson of a schoolgirl who was the first official patient of the new NHS nearly 70 years ago. The other is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who oversaw the launch ...
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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