A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Political opponent Clement Attlee suggested the work should have been titled "Things in history that interested me." Despite these criticisms, the books were bestsellers and reviewed favourably on both sides of the Atlantic. In the "Daily Telegraph", J.H. Plumb wrote: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past." The
Prime Minister of Nepal Master of the Royal Orders of Nepal. "Mukhtiyar" Bhimsen Thapa was the first person to be referred to as Prime Minister by the British. Similarly, Historian Chittaranjan Nepali writes that the first institution to hold all state powers was the position of "Mukhtiyar" which was established after the King Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from Varanasi. He further writes that the position was later converted into the Prime Ministership and thus the view expressed by some historians that the post of Prime Minister and the modern system of administration originated in Nepal with the emergence of Damodar Pande does