Major Clement Richard Attlee, Lender of the British Labour Party, who is to undergo an operation and who will be out of politics for the next two months. Mr Attlee has been in poor health for some time, and on several occasions during important debates recently has been unable to lead the Opposition. Aged 57, he is an M.A. (Oxford) and a past lecturer in social science at the London School of Economics. During the War, he was severely wounded in the relief of Kut and again in France. He attained the rank of major. After the War he was Mayor of Stepney, being elected to Parliament for that constituency in 1922, and being private secretary to Mr Ramsay MacDonald. In the first Labour Government he urns Under-Secretary for War, and was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1930-31, succeeding Mr George Lansbury as Leader of the Labour Party.

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Major Clement Richard Attlee, Lender of the British Labour Party, who is to undergo an operation and who will be out of politics for the next two months. Mr Attlee has been in poor health for some time, and on several occasions during important debates recently has been unable to lead the Opposition. Aged 57, he is an M.A. (Oxford) and a past lecturer in social science at the London School of Economics. During the War, he was severely wounded in the relief of Kut and again in France. He attained the rank of major. After the War he was Mayor of Stepney, being elected to Parliament for that constituency in 1922, and being private secretary to Mr Ramsay MacDonald. In the first Labour Government he urns Under-Secretary for War, and was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1930-31, succeeding Mr George Lansbury as Leader of the Labour Party.