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Attlee and meeting
Attlee became concerned with the power America possessed and therefore called a meeting of some foreign affairs ministers.
The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.
He credits James Goodby ( of the Brookings Institution ) with tracing what he considers the earliest known English-language use soon after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( although it is not quite verbatim ): a communique from a 15 November 1945, meeting of Harry Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King ( probably drafted by Vannevar Bush – or so Bush claimed in 1970 ) referred to " weapons adaptable to mass destruction ".
The London exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery included preparatory studies and was organized by Roland Penrose with Clement Attlee addressing a public meeting.
Following Labour's victory at the 1945 general election, Wilkinson urged Morrison to call for a meeting of the newly enlarged parliamentary party to elect a new leader, opening the way for him to become Prime Minister instead of Clement Attlee.

Attlee and King
It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.
* November 15 – Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee, and Mackenzie King call for a U. N. Atomic Energy Commission.
Foreseeing an Indian invasion, the Nizam petitioned King George VI for military assistance, but the government of Clement Attlee gave him none, whether military or diplomatic, so that he believed the British had reneged on their promises.
US President Harry Truman and Prime Ministers Clement Attlee of the United Kingdom and Mackenzie King of Canada boarding U. S. C. G.
By 1959, Cura claimed to have taken over 250, 000 tele-snaps and that sets of his tele-snaps had been “ presented to and graciously accepted by the Royal Family ; Their Majesties the King of Denmark ; the late King of Norway ; Queen Juliana of the Netherlands ; Ex-president Auriol of France ; Earl Attlee ; Sir Winston Churchill ; Mr Charles Chaplin ; Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt ” as well as a wide range of newspapers and periodicals.

Attlee and George
George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in 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.
George VI ( right ) with British prime minister Clement Attlee, July 1945
Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and George Grenville have both been members, as was the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah fifth President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
In 1935 its non-pacifist wing persuaded its pacifist leader George Lansbury to resign, to be replaced by Clement Attlee, and in 1937 Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton persuaded the party to oppose appeasement.
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.
The municipal boundaries of Killarney encompass the geographic townships of Rutherford and George Island, Hansen, Goschen, Sale, Attlee, Kilpatrick, Travers, Struthers, Allen and Bigwood in the District of Sudbury, Killarney and part of Carlyle in Manitoulin District and the northern part of Henvey in Parry Sound
In the 1931 general election, Cripps was one of only three former Labour ministers to hold their seats alongside the party leader George Lansbury and deputy leader Clement Attlee.
By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.
Henderson was succeeded by George Lansbury, and Alexander's contemporary, Clement Attlee, became deputy leader.
In 1935, when Arthur Ponsonby chose to resign with George Lansbury, Snell became Labour's leader in the Lords, serving under Clement Attlee.
Contributors included G. D. H. Cole, André Malraux, Katharine Burdekin and Clement Attlee, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, John Strachey, Clifford Odets, Edgar Snow, Ellen Wilkinson, R. H. Tawney, Léon Blum, J.
George Alfred Isaacs JP DL ( 28 May 1883 – 26 April 1979 ) was a British politician and trades unionist who served in the government of Clement Attlee.

Attlee and United
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
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.
* January 3 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1967 )
* October 8 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1883 )
Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's role has evolved, based often on the individual's personal appeal and strength of character, as contrasted between, for example, Winston Churchill as against Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher as against John Major.
In October 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham, of Cowley in the City of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, by the Labour government of Clement Attlee, and took his seat in the House of Lords as one of the few Labour peers.
On 1 January 1946, the Attlee government lifted wartime restrictions on civil flying in the United Kingdom.
Earl Attlee is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
In 1950, he was sent to the United Kingdom to cover the General Election, in which the Labour Party, under Clement Attlee, was narrowly victorious.
The decision to allow the United Nations to determine Palestine's future was formalised by the Attlee government's public declaration in February 1947 that Britain's Mandate in Palestine had become " unworkable.
On 8 August 1945 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Clement Attlee felt obliged to express his regret for the misunderstandings to the Australian government.
On return to the United Kingdom in 1949, Macdonald joined the government of Clement Attlee as Paymaster-General, elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor.
* Clement Attlee, Ist Earl Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945-1951 owned a Welsh Terrier.
* 17 October-At the request of the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the Minister for Finance ( Ireland ), Seán MacBride, and the Minister for External Affairs, Patrick McGilligan, meet representatives from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to discuss the repeal of the External Relations Act.
The AIOC was the United Kingdom's " single largest overseas asset " and a " source of national pride " in the British post-war era of Clement Attlee, and Ernest Bevin.
After the conclusion of hostilities, he was appointed editor United Kingdom Military Series of the History of the Second World War by the Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
* Earl Attlee, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Churchill, Clement Attlee ( Deputy Prime Minister ) and Anthony Eden ( Foreign Secretary ) represented the United Kingdom, and Earle Page represented Australia, along with representatives from the Netherlands, New Zealand, India and China.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee, announced on 20 February 1947 that:
Instead, probably due to his experience with the League of Nations and his prominent role at Dumbarton Oaks Clement Attlee appointed Cadogan the first Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.

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