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2 giorni fa · Attlee met Violet Millar while on a long trip with friends to Italy in 1921. They fell in love [213] and were soon engaged, marrying at Christ Church, Hampstead , on 10 January 1922. It would come to be a devoted marriage, with Attlee providing protection and Violet providing a home that was an escape for Attlee from political turmoil.
1 giorno fa · When Arthur died, in 1946, Violet Attlee picked up Roy and his mother at the hospital and brought them to Downing Street for the night. Jenkins could hardly have had better Labour credentials if he had been born down a mine; but he was never especially comfortable among the horny-handed sons of toil.
1 giorno fa · Clement Attlee celebrates the Labour Party election victory with his wife, Violet (centre, right) and fellow MP WV Edwards (left) in Stepney, London, July 26 1945.
1 giorno fa · A Yellow Sun Mk.2 with Red Snow, therefore, cost £500,000 compared to £1.2 million for the Mk.1. RAF Bomber Command wanted Violet Club replaced as soon as possible, so 37 Yellow Sun Mk.1s were delivered by the end of 1959. Deliveries of the Yellow Sun Mk.2 commenced in January 1961, and 43 were delivered by the end of the year. In November 1958.
1 giorno fa · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of ...
4 giorni fa · For Attlee, Gallipoli, Stepney and Limehouse were the crucible of his political beliefs and Westminster was the place to act upon them. For Sir Keir, his legal/political heart is with Strasbourg (home of the European Court of Human Rights) and Brussels. One senses he knows this is an electoral problem, especially among poorer voters.
4 giorni fa · Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.
