Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan. - Clement Attlee

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Clement Attlee

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About Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee KG OM CH FRS PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. Coming from an upper middle class background, Attlee was converted to socialism through working in the East End of London and became MP for Limehouse in 1922 (later Walthamstow West from 1950–55). He served as Deputy Prime Minister in Winston Churchill's war cabinet during World War II. He was elected Labour Party leader in 1935 and won a landslide victory in the 1945 election; his government put in place the welfare state including the National Health Service. Attlee was known for his laconic turn of phrase.

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Birth Name: Clement Richard Attlee

Alternative Names: Clement Richard Lord Attlee • Earl Attlee • Lord Attlee • Viscount Prestwood

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… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt.

I shall not waste time on this theoretical stuff, which seems to me to be a secondhand version of the academic views of an Austrian professor—Friedrich August von Hayek—who is very popular just now with the Conservative Party. Any system can be reduced to absurdity by this kind of theoretical reasoning, just as German professors showed theoretically that British democracy must be beaten by German dictatorship. It was not.