Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (1883–1967) was a British politician, who was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1945. He had served as Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill at the 1945 general election. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to have a majority in Parliament.

Clement Attlee in The Man With the Iron Heart
Clement Attlee's administration was troubled from the start. Despite Germany's total defeat in 1945, an organized resistance movement called the German Freedom Front immediately began inflicting casualties on Allied troops. In 1947, GFF men successfully snuck into London, and destroyed St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey with truck bombs.

Making matters worse, Attlee received substantial criticism from his predecessor, Winston Churchill.

Attlee issued a statement condemning the attacks and affirming Britain's committment to the occupation. He then ordered the rebuilding of the two monuments.