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Standing by Churchill. (Letters to the Editor).
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Alberta Report
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May 13, 2002
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* The anti-Churchill diatribe by Kevin Michael Grace (Eclectica, April 15) contained factual errors. He quotes Evelyn Waugh saying that Churchill was always in the wrong, always surrounded by crooks and did not rally the nation. How does Waugh explain that Clement Attlee, leader of the Opposition, said he and a majority of Parliament would not serve under anyone else when a united government was a necessity? Churchill was almost alone in politics in forecasting the evils of Nazi Germany, doing so since Hitler's rise to power in 1933. His orations were looked forward to by the vast majority of people--I never met a soldier, sailor or airman who expressed Waugh's view. And ...
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);
July 26, 2006 ;
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Chicago Sun-Times;
February 23, 1991 ;
Jeff Greenfield;
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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Veteran Benn in attack on Blair.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);
February 10, 1998 ;
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......systematically repudiating the beliefs of Clement Attlee - the greatest leader the Labour Party...Prime Minister. Mr Benn said: Today all Clement Attlee stood for is being systematically repudiated...of tax and spend, never to return. Clement Attlee was a signatory of the United ...
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Letter: Two sides of Freemasonry
The Independent - London;
July 25, 1995 ;
Cdr M. B. S. Higham, RN;
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...From Cdr M. B. S. Higham, RN Sir: Wilkes's Diary (30 June) referred to Clement Attlee as a Freemason. In October 1989, the late Earl Attlee (son of Clement Attlee) wrote to your paper refuting the allegation that his father was a Freemason...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Attlee's ailments.(News)
Birmingham Mail (England);
September 29, 2006 ;
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...NOTEBOOKS from Clement Attlee's Cabinet meetings released for the first time today reveal that the issues troubling the Government...had underestimated the number of beds they needed, and ruined his Budget. CAPTION(S): PM... Clement Attlee.
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Veteran Benn in attack on Blair
Evening Mail;
February 10, 1998 ;
310 words
......systematically repudiating the beliefs of Clement Attlee - "the greatest leader the Labour Party...Minister. Mr Benn said: "Today all Clement Attlee stood for is being systematically repudiated...of tax and spend, never toreturn. "Clement Attlee was a signatory of the United ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Clement Attlee; the man who built the welfare state.
The Economist (US);
November 11, 1989 ;
787 words
...CLEMENT ATTLEE CLEMENT ATTLEE was smaller than life. Physically unimpressive, he had all the charisma, and something of the appearance, of a gerbil. Nor could he call on wordpower to compensate. He had a reedy voice and a sparse vocabulary. One...
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Swift, John: Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in...
History: Review of New Books;
March 22, 2002 ;
Burridge, Trevor;
321 words
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England);
January 3, 2003 ;
208 words
...1883: Birth of British statesman Clement Attlee: One of our greatest politicians, Clement Attlee was Britain's post-war Prime Minister (1945-51), leading a Labour government responsible for ground-breaking reforms that included establishing the...
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Robens dies
Evening Mail;
June 28, 1999 ;
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...LORD Robens, a Cabinet minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government and former National Coal Board chairman, has died after a long illness. He was 88.
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Robens dies.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);
June 28, 1999 ;
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...LORD Robens, a Cabinet minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government and former National Coal Board chairman, has died after a long illness. He was 88.
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VJ DAY: The day they had all waited for.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England);
August 13, 2005 ;
305 words
...It fell to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of less than one month's standing, to tell the British people on the night of...limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance' - scarcely a ringing endorsement CAPTION(S): Clement Attlee
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Premier league.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
August 29, 2006 ;
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...Margaret Thatcher and 1940s Labour premier Clement Attlee were the best 20th-century prime ministers at achieving their aims, according to BBC historian Francis Beckett.
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LABOUR: THE FIRST 100 YEARS; Attlee tops the great leader poll.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
February 26, 2000 ;
Morris, Nigel;
223 words
......best-ever leader - by his own MPs. The poll was topped by Clement Attlee, Labour's triumphant leader after World War II who helped...Vietnam War were the events of which they were most ashamed. 1 Clement Attlee 2 Harold Wilson 3 John Smith 4 Tony Blair 5 Keir Hardie...
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Little has changed in NHS struggle.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);
September 29, 2006 ;
355 words
...Clement Attlee: Same problems as today' Aneurin Bevan: Hospitals ruined his budget Notebooks from Clement Attlee's Cabinet meetings released for the first time today reveal that the issues troubling the Government have changed little in 50 years...
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