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Attlee's foreign policy focused on decolonisation efforts, including the partition of India (1947), the independence of Burma and Ceylon, and the dissolution of the British mandates of Palestine and Transjordan. Attlee and Bevin encouraged the United States to take a vigorous role in the Cold War.
The foreign policy of the British Labour governments, 1945–1951 (1984). Pelling, Henry. "The 1945 general election reconsidered". ... "Clement Attlee and the ...
On 13 November 1945, Attlee's foreign minister Ernest Bevin announced the formation of the Anglo-American Commission. [3] The British government suggested the joint inquiry in effort to secure American co-responsibility for a Palestinian policy, fearing Arab resistance to an influx of Jewish immigrants into Palestine.
With the end of the war, the new Labour Government, led by Clement Attlee, with Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary, decided to maintain the White Paper policy. Immediately after the UN resolution, the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities.
The Labour party gained a 145-seat majority in 1945.
Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee shared the highest ranking. [ 3 ] In 2010, the University of Leeds and Woodnewton Associates carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics or British history, to rank the performance of all 12 prime ministers who served between 1945 and 2010.
The London Conference of 1946–1947, which took place between September 1946 and February 1947, was called by the British Government of Clement Attlee to resolve the future governance of Palestine and negotiate an end of the Mandate. It was scheduled following an Arab request after the April 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry report. [1]
Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who succeeded Churchill in June 1945, created the Gen 75 Committee on 10 August 1945 to examine the feasibility of a nuclear weapons programme. [15] It was known informally by Attlee as the "Atomic Bomb Committee", although no explicit decision to build one was made until January 1947. [ 16 ]