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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 Lord Privy Seal ( 1940 – 42 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 1942 – 45 ), Dominions Secretary ( 1942 – 43 ), and Lord President of the Council ( 1943 – 45 ).
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.

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Accordingly, Lansbury became leader of the party and Attlee became deputy leader.
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.
Lansbury resigned and was replaced as leader by his deputy Clement Attlee, who along with Lansbury and Stafford Cripps had been one of only three Labour Cabinet Ministers to be re-elected at the General Election in 1931.
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.
Greenwood became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee.
Henderson was succeeded by George Lansbury, and Alexander's contemporary, Clement Attlee, became deputy leader.

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In these early years Beckett was considered a close ally of Clement Attlee, alongside whom he had worked as a Labour Party agent before his election to Parliament.
Russia had been provided with 40 of these engines under an export license provided by the Labour government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee after the war.

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From 1906 to 1909, Attlee worked as manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working class boys in Stepney in the East End of London run by his old school.
Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.
He would be known as " Major Attlee " for much of the inter-war period.
At the 1922 general election, Attlee became the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney.
Attlee served as acting leader for nine months from December 1933, after Lansbury fractured his thigh in an accident.
Although the Attlee Government failed to meet its targets, primarily due to economic constraints, over a million new homes were built between 1945 and 1951 ( a significant achievement under the circumstances ) which ensured that decent, affordable housing was available to many low-income families for the first time ever.
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.
These benefits had been legislated for the previous year by Churchill ’ s Family Allowances Act 1945, and was the first measure pushed through parliament by Attlee ’ s government.
The Attlee Government ensured provisions of the Education Act 1944 were fully implemented, with free secondary education becoming a right for the first time.
Later that year Stafford Cripps tried to persuade Attlee to stand aside for Bevin.
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.
Attlee appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten Viceroy of India, and agreed to Mountbatten's request for plenipotentiary powers for negotiating Indian independence.
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.

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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.
George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.
Even if Attlee had been prepared to serve under Chamberlain ( in a " national emergency government "), he would not have been able to carry the party with him.
Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Attlee and Churchill wanted the coalition government to last until Japan had been defeated.
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.
The Attlee government then became instrumental in the creation of the successful NATO defence alliance to protect Western Europe against any Soviet aggression.
By 1951, the Attlee government was looking increasingly exhausted, with several of its most important ministers ailing or having died.
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 the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: " the government ... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy ".
Clement Attlee, U. K. Prime Minister, Labour Party ( UK ) | Labour Party government, 1945 – 51.
Aneurin Bevan, who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, criticised the Attlee government for not progressing further, demanding economic planning and criticising the implementation of nationalisation for not empowering the workers with democratic control of operations.
Generations of poor children grew up stronger and healthier, because of this one, small, and inexpensive act of generosity, by the Attlee 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.
For example, Robert M. Page, a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about " transformative democratic socialism " to refer to the politics of the Clement Attlee government ( a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution, some nationalisation ) and " revisionist democratic socialism ," as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson:
Sinclair and Attlee agreed that options 1 and 2 were unacceptable and Churchill pledged to support the government.
The Festival became associated with the post-war Labour government of Clement Attlee and was rapidly demolished by the incoming Conservative administration of Winston Churchill.
His most famous accomplishment came when, as Minister of Health in the post-war Attlee government, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, which provides medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons.
* 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.
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.
Clement Attlee won the 1945 general election and succeeded Winston Churchill after their coalition broke up but only after a two-month interval when Attlee was not a member of the government.
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.

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