One day last week, Clement Attlee quietly picked up the morning paper. A minute later he found himself in the most embarrassing how-de-do a British Prime Minister had faced in a long time—the kind of ...

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 ...

Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...

Barely two months before the opening of the Nuremberg trials, British prime minister Clement Attlee wrote to President Truman about the “displaced persons”—the DPs—of numerous nationalities stranded ...

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