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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.
Attlee went on to win a narrow majority at the 1950 general election, forming the second Attlee ministry. [3] Just twenty months after that election, Attlee called a new election for 25 October 1951, but was narrowly defeated by the Conservative Party , sending Labour into a 13-year spell in opposition.
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 ]
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.
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.
The new Prime Minister Clement Attlee proclaimed, "This is the first time in the history of the country that a labour movement with a socialist policy has received the approval of the electorate." [3] During the war, surveys showed public opinion moving to the left and in favour of a wider social reform. [4]
Nevertheless, for now, the Trump 2.0 foreign policy raises legitimate questions about the future of Europe and of NATO. And, in a world that is rapidly becoming multipolar, it raises questions ...
A conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, William D. Leahy, Joseph E. Davies, James F. Byrnes, and Harry S. Truman From left to right, first row: General Secretary Joseph Stalin; President Harry Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.