During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town F. C .. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1906.

One firm, Scammell and Nephew Ltd, took a civil action against Attlee and the other Labour members of the committee ( although not against the Conservative members who had also supported this ).

The Attlee Government also extended the powers of local authorities to requisition houses and parts of houses, and made the acquisition of land less difficult than before.

The Attlee Government also significantly increased pensions and other benefits, with pensions raised to become more of a living income than they had been.

The party also failed to master the medium of television, while Foot addressed public meetings around the country, and made some radio broadcasts, in the same manner as Clement Attlee in 1945.

The new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Health, with a remit that also covered Housing.

Groups originating from Haileybury support a number of charities such as The Children's Trust, Tadworth, the Home Farm Trust and the Boys ' Club in Stepney once managed by Old Haileyburian Clement Attlee ( who was also involved with the Haileybury Youth Trust which is now based in Uganda improving the lives of hundreds of Ugandans in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way ) and Changing Faces-a charity which supports and represents people who have disfigurements to the face, hand or body.

H. G. Wells, Vera Brittain, Clement Attlee, Rebecca West, Edith Summerskill and Harold Laski were also founder members.

While Lloyd-George also waited a similar period, most offers have been made and accepted shortly after retirement such as the Earls of Oxford and Asquith, Baldwin, Attlee and Avon.

Secondly there was the question of economic perspectives and the growing tendency of the Labour party government of Clement Attlee to take various industries into state ownership as was also happening in eastern Europe.

It had been preceded by the Tehran Conference in 1943, and it was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, which was attended by Harry S Truman, who replaced the late Roosevelt ; Stalin ; and Churchill, who was replaced midpoint by the newly elected British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

The funeral was attended by the then Prime Minister Clement Attlee as well as Lord Halifax and fellow officers including Field Marshals Alanbrooke and Montgomery.

He attended Haileybury ( where Clement Attlee was his junior ) and New College, Oxford.

The decision was later reversed on appeal, but the financial problems caused by the episode almost forced Attlee out of politics.

During the course of the second Labour government, Attlee had become increasingly disillusioned by Ramsay MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and later wrote scathingly of him in his autobiography.

During a debate on defence a year later Attlee declared " We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

In an early " good-will " gesture that was later heavily criticised, the Attlee government allowed the Soviets access, under the terms of a 1946 UK-USSR Trade Agreement, to several Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines.

A heavy pipe and cigarette smoker from an early age, Attlee had breathing problems in his later years.

His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 1948.

Stalin met in several conferences with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ( and later Clement Attlee ) and / or U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( and later Harry Truman ) to plan military strategy and, later, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.

The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, and, later, Clement Attlee and President Harry S. Truman.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

In Great Britain the Liberal government of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and David Lloyd George introduced the National Insurance system in 1911, a system later expanded by Clement Attlee.

* Clement Attlee — Labour Prime Minister in the first post-war government ; lived in a large villa " Heywood ", which was later demolished and replaced by a small block of flats.

The Yorkshire branch later threatened a strike over the Government's plans for Wentworth, and Joe Hall wrote personally to Clement Attlee in a futile attempt to stop the mining.

In Great Britain the Liberal government of Henry Campbell-Bannerman and David Lloyd George introduced the National Insurance system in 1911, a system later expanded by Clement Attlee.

While abroad, he became heavily involved in the politics of the Labour Party, at the time led by Clement Attlee and later Hugh Gaitskell.

The term was later used to describe two later British elections, the 1918 general election, fought at the end of the First World War and resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945 general election, held during the closing stages of the Second World War, where the Labour Party candidate, Clement Attlee, won by a landslide.

In later years Bevin gave Attlee ( whom he privately referred to as " little Clem ") staunch support, especially in 1947 when Herbert Morrison and Stafford Cripps led further intrigue against Attlee.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Clement Attlee, later Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, had a residence in Woodford Green, the seat of his political adversary, Winston Churchill.

It was created in 1947 for Fred Kershaw, who later served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the Labour government of Clement Attlee.

He later served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in the Labour government of Clement Attlee.

Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

* 1945-July 17-August 2 Potsdam Conference ; President Harry S. Truman meets with Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee ; tells Stalin of atomic bomb ; gives Japan last warning to surrender ; Germany ( and Austria ) divided into 4 zones of occupation

Potsdam Conference: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William Daniel Leahy, James F. Byrnes, Harry S. Truman and others.

The Potsdam Conference was held from July to August 1945, which included the participation of Clement Attlee, who had replaced Churchill as Prime Minister.

Potsdam Conference: Sitting ( from left ) Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William Daniel Leahy, James F. Byrnes and Harry S. Truman.

Potsdam Conference: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William Daniel Leahy, James F. Byrnes and Harry S. Truman.

Party leader Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and hastily replaced his predecessor Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in late July.