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The Steady but Unremarkable Clement Attlee
Neither patriotism nor pragmatism necessarily mark one out for greatness.
CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune.
Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many of his comrades never left the…
When an ailing George Lansbury relinquished the leadership of the Labour Party in 1935, Attlee—virtually alone among Labour’s senior front-benchers to survive the…