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Jan.3:Clement Attlee




For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely David Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour Party through the Second World War, and then Prime Minister in the first great postwar Labour government.
Never Mind Churchill, Clement Attlee Is a Model for These Times
A recent biography of the postwar Labour Prime Minister presents a figure fully as admirable—and, in some significant ways, more so—as Churchill.
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クレメント・アトリー - Wikipedia

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初代アトリー伯爵クレメント・リチャード・アトリー（Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee、1883年1月3日 - 1967年10月8日）は、イギリスの政治家。首相（在任：1945年 - 1951年）。 労働党党首（1935年 - 1955年）。ラムゼイ・マクドナルド以来2人目の労働党出身の首相で、同党出身の首相として初めて4年の任期を全うできただけでなく、任期中に議会で過半数の議席を得ることができた首相でもある。 同政権下では国営医療事業国民保健サービス（NHS）などが設立され、イギリスはベヴァリッジ報告書構想に基づく ...
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Clement Attlee - Wikipedia

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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. In 1940, Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government and served under Winston Churchill, becoming the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He went on to lead the ...
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4月18日：George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) : Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)舌辯大師丹諾；Samuel Huntington

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Sep. 24：Euripides, Horace Walpole, Pablo Neruda

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Wikipedia Born :  September 24, 1717,  London, United Kingdom Died :  March 2, 1797,  Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom Movies :  Castle of Otranto Parents :  Robert Walpole ,  Catherine, Lady Walpole Quotes The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. To mark the tercentenary of the birth of Horace Walpole (1717–1797), English author, antiquarian, collector, and politician, the Lewis Walpole Library is sponsoring programs throughout the year to ...
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June 6th :Thomas Mann, Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, Carl Jung, Alexander Pushkin

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Wikipedia Born :  June 6, 1875,  Free City of Lübeck Died :  August 12, 1955,  Zürich, Switzerland Everyman's Library 12小時  ·  Paul Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck, German Empire on this day in 1875. In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Writing well was almost the same  as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!" —from THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by  Thomas Mann With rich novel of ideas, Thoma...
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