Attlee

American

[at-lee] / ˈæt li /

noun

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

Attlee British

/ ˈætlɪ /

noun

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

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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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From BBC

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.

From BBC

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

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