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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loaded down with strong opinions after his fleeting (18-day) guided tour of Communist China, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall on ...

John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while ...

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee addressed the opening session of the inaugural meeting of the United Nations General Assembly at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London on Jan. 10, 1946.