(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 ...

One is the grandson of a schoolgirl who was the first official patient of the new NHS nearly 70 years ago. The other is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who oversaw the launch ...

Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year, when ...

Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph: PA Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s ...

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were indeed jobs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph ...