Earl Attlee is the grandson of the Labour prime minister. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
Wow, Mr. Taggart, did you just really call Attlee bad?. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
Bevan, who was at the time a minister in Attlee’s cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [A passage from India] Reference
Some people said as I passed, 'Attlee, we remember Attlee.'. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Clement Attlee the new Prime Minister was a great hero of ours. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Allende is in no sense like Leon Blum, Attlee, or Harold Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: Chile: Year One] Reference
Attlee, it seems, was awarded full marks for much the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Well, that just goes to show] Reference
It's Attlee you're under now, not Churchill, and things have changed. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Attlee, and I met to exchange views primarily with respect to Germany. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Attlee government's disinclination to tamper with the public schools and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews)] Reference
'Yes,' replied Attlee, 'and what's more, he was at Haileybury, my old school.'. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Stalinists like the despicable Franklin Roosevelt and the vile Clement Attlee. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Huckabee Making Strong Bid to Lose “Likeable Conservative” Credentials] Reference
"Attlee has no color", one man told me, "but he's such a decent little fellow". From Wordnik.com. [The British Election] Reference
Well, Attlee lost the 1951 election and Heath lost three of the four he fought. From Wordnik.com. [Well, that just goes to show] Reference
Clement Attlee informing him of Australia's determination to act through the United Nations. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference
You represent the country of Attlee, and you come from his party and the Mother of Parliaments. '. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Attlee, in 1945, cocked a big snook at Professor Laski and said "I'm going to do nothing of the kind.". From Wordnik.com. [The Politician and the Bureaucrat] Reference
In the Attlee government elected in 1945, he was, successively, Minister of State in the Foreign Office. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Noel-Baker - Biography] Reference
For myself, I would wish for Socialism, in the British sense - if I were in England I would vote for Attlee. From Wordnik.com. [MESSAGE TO PEOPLE OF WESTERN AREAS, JOHANNESBURG, FEBRUARY 19551] Reference
Britons felt the same way 40 years ago; at Allied urging, Attlee championed rearmament as the cold war began. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: The Churchill Scenario] Reference
Well, we went off now round the corner to Attlee Avenue, and there was this sweets and cancers shop still open. From Wordnik.com. [Where's the show?] Reference
Had Attlee not been elected, it's possible that Churchill would have insisted that the British hold on to India. From Wordnik.com. [Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny] Reference
The Attlee Government would have been severely hampered, or even completely neutered, by any written Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
These people just aren't natural fascists, unless you consider the England of Attlee or Harold Wilson was fascist. From Wordnik.com. [March 07, 2004] Reference
Until this election, London journalism operated as if we were still in the two-party politics of Attlee and Churchill. From Wordnik.com. [The right has only itself to blame for Nick Clegg's rise] Reference
Doomed prime ministers wait for five years – Attlee in 1950, Macmillan in 1964, Callaghan in 1979 and Major in 1997. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon’s dilemma: lose now or lose later] Reference
That is why the Attlee and Thatcher governments are, rightly regarded as the most important governments since the war. From Wordnik.com. [The Tories' best chance for a substantive legacy] Reference
The sentiment of all governments after Attlee was to ‘manage the decline of Britain’ ... so much for their patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
When Geoffrey replied, 'Sorry, sir, I'm too busy', Attlee told him to drop the children off at No. 10 and he would take them. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
A measure of the reliability of this measure can be had from the fact that Wilson came out as the second best, ahead of Attlee. From Wordnik.com. [Politics blog live - Thursday 9 September] Reference
It was clear the party was split and that the next election would make Attlee Prime Minister again or push him into retirement. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Attlee called a general election in the following February and scraped back at the head of an exhausted and soon to be divided party. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Ed clearly sees himself, like Nye Bevan at the end of the Attlee era, as the rallying figure for the left in the faction fight to come. From Wordnik.com. [Gove stirs up trouble for Balls] Reference
As Labour Party leader Clement Attlee was absent, Arthur Greenwood stood up in his place and announced that he was speaking for Labour. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-04] Reference
Attlee then moved him to the Home Office and he would undoubtedly have gone on to greater things had Labour won a full second term in 1950. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]
Attlee and Thatcher make the first rank, with Macmillan and Blair in the second and the two Liberals Asquith and Lloyd George in the third. From Wordnik.com. [The great PMs] Reference
At the close of World War II, Attlee unseated Churchill as prime minister with a "come home" platform like the one Democrats hope to offer now. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: The Churchill Scenario] Reference
Thomas-Symonds can argue in his own defence that Attlee himself endorsed – at least in public – a highly limited view of his Downing Street role. From Wordnik.com. [Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds] Reference
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