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Do you know who was President/Prime Minister the year you were born- without looking it up? Apparently Matt Drudge doesn't. I was scornful until I tried to answer the question myself.

I guessed Eisenhower/Churchill. Wrong. I was a toddler when Eisenhower and Churchill came in. The answer is Truman/Attlee.

I'm pleasantly surprised. I idolise the post-war Labour Government (which gave us the Welfare State) and I don't like Churchill (whose post-war administration was the vanity project of a senile old man.) I'd far rather be a post-war Labour baby than a Churchill baby.

Yay- Attlee!

Re: 1947

Date: 2005-07-21 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
As the picture becomes clearer it's looking as if this was an attack that went badly wrong (from the bombers' point of view.) The bombs didn't go off properly and the bombers will now be captured alive and interrogated- a terrific breakthrough for the police!

Re: 1947

Date: 2005-07-21 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mummm.livejournal.com
Oh well then.... YAY!!!
Lets hope that lots more of them become inept!

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