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We believe in a League system in which the whole world should be ranged against an aggressor....We do not think that you can deal with national armaments by piling up national armaments in other countries.
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I count our progress by the extent to which what we cried in the wilderness five and thirty years ago has now become part of the assumptions of the ordinary man and woman…It is better to argue from what has been done to what may be done, rather than to suggest that very little has been accomplished.
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Birth: | 3rd January, 1883 |
Death: | 8th October, 1967 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Lawyer, Politician, Soldier |
Clement Attlee was born in Putney, Surrey,United Kingdom. He was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. First elected to Parliament in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, he rose quickly to become a minister in the minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924. He attended Haileybury College, and University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Modern History in 1904. During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1906. During the First World War, Attlee was commissioned and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.
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