OK, so I've been reading up on Attlee, and boy was I wrong yesterday. That cat was awesome!
I don't know what I was thinking. I was probably confusing him with Anthony Eden or something. I know, you'll laugh, and you're entitled to. Please bear in mind that American students learn absolutely nothing of British prime ministers beyond Churchill. Zippo. Only a very self-selecting group of college kids who take advanced European history courses start to learn about the rest of them.
I was one of those, but it's been a long time now. And I've read of course books of European history since then, but I guess they've been more about earlier periods, or more about mittel and eastern Europe. To the extent that Attlee lives on in the United States today, he does so chiefly through crossword puzzles, because his name is such a fortuitous amalgam of puzzle-friendly letters. So please forgive me.
Anyway, an Attlee bust would be just terrific by me. Gordon: heads up, yo. The symbolism would be perfect.
