Attlee

[at-lee]

noun

1. Clement (Richard), 1883–1967, British statesman: prime minister 1945–51.

Attlee

/ ˈætlɪ /

noun

1. Clement Richard, 1st Earl Attlee. 1883–1967, British statesman; prime minister (1945–51); leader of the Labour party (1935–55). His government instituted the welfare state, with extensive nationalization

Example Sentences

Mr. Plokhy cites the Labour prime minister, Clement Attlee: “The answer to an atomic bomb on London is an atomic bomb on another great city.”

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He will also talk about rebuilding, in a nod to Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee's postwar government's programme of new towns, which fixed the devastation wreaked by bombs as well as poverty.

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Mandelson was born into Labour Party royalty - his grandfather was Herbert Morrison, a cabinet minister in Clement Attlee's 1945 government, revered by Labour members.

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When British Prime Minister Clement Attlee proposed a British withdrawal from the Arabian territories at the same time as the withdrawal from India, he was shouted down.

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Clement Attlee was Prime Minister, and meat, cheese, sugar, and petrol were still being rationed after World War Two.

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