Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

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.

Attlee was born in Putney, London, the seventh of eight children.

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

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.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

Attlee believed that it was a bold strategy, which could have been successful if it had been better implemented.

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.

Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

During this period, financial problems again almost forced Attlee to quit politics, as his wife was ill and there was then no separate salary for the Leader of the Opposition.

In the post-election leadership contest held in November 1935, Attlee was opposed by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood.

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

Attlee made a broadcast in opposition to it, saying the budget ... was the natural expression of the character of the present Government.

One of the companies was named the ' Major Attlee Company ' in his honour.

Attlee was his regular deputy in these committees, and answered for the government in parliament when Churchill was absent.

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.

Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, visiting a munitions factory in 1941

Attlee chaired the third body, the Lord President's Committee, which ran the civil side of the war.

Attlee appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten Viceroy of India, and agreed to Mountbatten's request for plenipotentiary powers for negotiating Indian independence.

The new Lord Home took his seat in the Lords ; a by-election was called to appoint a new MP for Lanark, but it was still pending when Attlee called another general election in October 1951.

Eventually, in 1947, Attlee lost confidence in Wavell and replaced him with Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

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.

Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords or Leader of the House of Commons.

Lord Longford served in the Labour administrations of Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Although he had won plaudits for his legal skills as Lord Chancellor, Attlee declined to appoint him to the British delegation at the Nuremberg War Trials, telling him bluntly in a letter that his role in the pre-war governments made this unwise.

In contrast to his father and grandfather, the current Lord Attlee is a member of the Conservative Party.

On 2 March 2011, the Lord Speaker gave a lecture to the Mile End Group in the Attlee Suite of Portcullis House.

During the Attlee government, he served successively as Lord Privy Seal and Paymaster-General.

* Lord Privy Seal: Clement Attlee ( Labour )

Attlee appointed Addison to be Labour's leader in the Lords in 1940, after Lord Snell stepped down for health reasons.

He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.

He worked with Arthur Greenwood, and against Herbert Morrison, who favoured Lord Halifax as successor, to convince Attlee and the party's Executive to support Churchill.

William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC ( 15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957 ), was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.

Labour now formed its first majority government and the new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Jowitt as Lord Chancellor.

He had gained trust with the nationalist leaders such as Mohammad Hatta and Ahmed Sukarno and warned both Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the Allied Supreme Commander in South East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, whom he met in London in October 1945, that the country was on the verge of blowing up.

Eight LBC authors were part of the new government ( Lord Addison, Attlee, Bevan, Cripps, Philip Noel-Baker, Shinwell, Strachey and Wilkinson ) and six were MPs ( Maurice Edelman, Michael Foot, Elywyn Jones, JPW Mallalieu, Stephen Swingler and Konni Zilliacus ).

The legislation was formulated by the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, after representatives of the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League, and the Sikh community came to an agreement with the Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, on what has come to be known as the 3 June Plan or Mountbatten Plan.

He served under Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, with a seat in the cabinet, from April to October 1947, when he resigned.

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.

Infant, child, and maternity services were expanded, while the Official Food Policy Committee ( chaired by the deputy PM and Labour leader Clement Attlee ) approved grants of fuel and subsidised milk to mothers and to children under the age of five in June 1940.

* Clement Attlee ( 1940 – 1942 )

In the closing days of April 1940, Churchill met with Alexander, Clement Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair to discuss the possibilities for a coalition government.

He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party ( as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party ) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.

In 1940 when Chamberlain's war-time government was faltering, Clement Attlee secretly warned that the Labour Party might not follow Churchill due to his association with Tonypandy.