Indeed, Churchill’s two best-known jokes about Attlee, that he was “a sheep in sheep’s clothing” and “a modest man with a lot to be modest about”—the first apocryphal, the second genuine—echoed the ...

When Winston Churchill spoke to the world, his rhetoric growled and rolled like a magnificent thunderstorm. Plain Mr. Attlee could hardly hope to equal Mr. Churchill’s sound effects—but last week he ...

Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps. Yet mild Mr. Attlee’s-journey to the U.S.—his ...

Led by the modest and unremarkable Clement Attlee, the victory was a surprise to almost everyone as it was general wisdom that the Tory party would return but with a reduced majority. Prof David ...

Stating that “there is no possible doubt” that the Anglo-American report on Palestine called for the transfer to that country of 100,000 Jews without delay, Harold Laski, chairman of the executive of ...

A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed today that Prime Minister Attlee has received a reply from President Truman to the British Premier’s sharp note of last Friday in which he protested the issuance ...

For the first time in British history Labour was able to form a government with an absolute majority – a majority of 146. In the words of Winston Churchill, the wartime prime minister and Conservative ...