(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clement Attlee was one of the great sons of the LSE, and went on to become the Prime Minister of the most radical left wing government in British history. Yet he was looked down upon by many academics ...

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 ...

The sound of the katydids began on Monday; Washington shrilled with their guesses and contradictions. That day on the dot of 4, small and anonymous-looking in an unpressed grey suit, the Prime ...

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 many ...