[permalink] [id link]
Some Related Sentences
Attlee and responded

The British government of Clement
Attlee responded to this unilateral move by giving
the Northern Unionists
a guarantee
that they would
not be forced into
a united Ireland without their agreement
.
" The Labour leader Clement
Attlee responded in his election broadcast by claiming
that what Churchill had said was
the " second-hand version of
the academic views of an Austrian professor, Friedrich August von Hayek
.

Clement
Attlee, Leader of
the ( Labour ) Opposition
responded.
Attlee and next

On 30 November 1988,
a bronze statue of Clement
Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson (
the next Labour prime minister after
Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library
in his former constituency
.
Attlee and day

At his preparatory school, Northaw Place,
in 1892 Young took pity
on nine-year-old Clement
Attlee on the latter's first
day at school, offering
the newcomer jam from his own pot
.

Prime Minister
Attlee reported
to his Cabinet colleagues
the following
day that he had discussed relevant Working Party proposals with
the Northern Ireland delegation
.
Attlee and debate

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
.

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 attempted
to move
the debate along
but received little support from Churchill ( who was against Indian independence ), nor from Clement
Attlee, Churchill's successor as Prime Minister
.
Attlee and on
Attlee met Violet Millar
on a trip
to Italy
in 1921
.

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

Due
to the time he needed
to devote
to the commission, and contrary
to a promise MacDonald made
to Attlee to induce him
to serve
on the commission, he was
not initially offered
a ministerial post
in the Second Labour Government
.

With
a general election looming,
the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed
Attlee as interim leader,
on the understanding
that a leadership election would
be held after
the general election
.
Attlee supported Churchill
in his continuation of Britain's resistance after
the French capitulation
in 1940, and proved
a loyal ally
to Churchill throughout
the conflict ; when
the war cabinet had voted
on whether
to negotiate peace terms,
Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted
in favour of fighting, giving Churchill
the majority he needed
to continue
the war
.

The results of
the election came as
a surprise
to many, including
Attlee, when they were announced
on 26 July
.

The
Attlee Government placed strong emphasis
on improving
the quality of life
in rural areas, benefiting both farmers and other consumers
.

One of his main reasons for staying
on as leader was
to frustrate
the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom
Attlee disliked for political and personal reasons
.

Coat of arms of
the Earl
Attlee | Earls
Attlee He retired from
the Commons and was elevated
to the peerage
to take his seat
in the House of Lords as Earl
Attlee and Viscount Prestwood
on 16 December 1955
.

Several years after his death,
a street
on a new housing development
in Tividale, West Midlands, was named
Attlee Close
in his memory
.
Attlee was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Queen Mary College
on 15 December 1948
.

Broadcast
on 15 September 2007, it was written by Robin Glendinning, with Bill Wallis playing
Attlee.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as
Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting
the outcome of
the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after
the Labour Party's victory over
the Conservatives — gathered
to decide how
to administer punishment
to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed
to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier,
on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

* March 15 – Clement
Attlee promises independence
to India as soon as they can agree
on a constitution
.

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
.

Not long after Wilson's retirement, his mental deterioration from Alzheimer's disease began
to be apparent, and he did
not appear
in public after 1988 when he unveiled
the Clement
Attlee statue at Limehouse Library
on 30 November of
that year
.

Labour won
a landslide victory
on 26 July 1945 bringing Clement
Attlee to power
.

The foundation stone was laid by Clement
Attlee, then Prime Minister,
in 1949
on the site of
the former Lion Brewery, built
in 1837
.

Labour Party leader Clement
Attlee held
the post
in the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill, and had general responsibility for domestic affairs, allowing Churchill
to concentrate
on the war
.
Attlee and increased

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 cumulative impact of
the Attlee ’ s Government ’ s health and welfare policies was such
that all
the indices of health ( such as statistics of school medical or dental officers, or of medical officers of health ) showed signs of improvement, with continual improvements
in survival rates for infants and
increased life expectancy for
the elderly
.

Throughout, there is
a strong sense of
the hardships of
the post-war period, including comments
on the increased burden of taxation associated with
the government of Clement
Attlee.
Attlee and speech

The Labour Party Leader Clement
Attlee claimed
in one political
speech in 1937
that the National Government had connived at German
rearmament " because of its hatred of Russia
.

Arguably his most famous moment came
on 2 September 1939 when, acting for an absent
Attlee, he was called
to respond
to Neville Chamberlain's ambivalent
speech on whether Britain would aid Poland
.

This allowed Trout
to announce
the news
a few seconds before
Attlee made
the announcement
in his radio
speech.
Attlee and Soviet

The
Attlee government then became instrumental
in the creation of
the successful NATO defence alliance
to protect Western Europe against any
Soviet aggression
.

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
.

Consequently, British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee assumed leadership following Winston Churchill, whose
Soviet policy since
the early 1940s had differed considerably from former U
. S
. President Roosevelt's, with Churchill believing Stalin
to be a " devil "- like tyrant leading
a vile system
.

In
the first few years of
the Attlee administration, Tribune became
the focus for
the Labour left's attempts
to persuade Ernest Bevin,
the Foreign Secretary,
to adopt
a " third force
" democratic socialist foreign policy, with Europe acting independently from
the US and
the Soviet Union, most coherently advanced
in the pamphlet Keep Left ( which was published by
the rival New Statesman ).

After
the Second World War
the government of Clement
Attlee decided
to continue
the scheme
in the face of
the Cold War and
the perceived
Soviet threat, though it grew ever less popular
.
Attlee and We

At
the Labour Party conference at Southport
in 1934,
Attlee declared
that " We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty
.

In 1938
Attlee opposed
the Munich Agreement
in which Chamberlain negotiated with
Hitler to give Germany
the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia,
the Sudetenland:
We all feel relief
that war has
not come this time
.
We switched
to London, I don't know what happened, I'm
not even sure whether you heard
the first words of Prime Minister
Attlee or
not.

* Philip French & Michael Sissons ( 1963 ) The Age of Austerity Hodder & Stoughton by Oxford University Press | OUP 1986 ( contributed chapter "'
We Are
the Masters Now '" (
on the Attlee government ) pp
. 1 – 20 )
0.347 seconds.