“… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”

— Clement Attlee

Extract from his 1922 election address, quoted in T.W. Walding (ed.), Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges (Philip Gee, London, 1922), p. 35
1920s

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