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Hace 4 horas · Clement Attlee. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee served as Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime ...
Hace 4 días · Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the British-built Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee (in power until 1951) opted instead to tighten the economic boycott while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.
Hace 3 días · He began his premiership by forming a war cabinet: Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council, Labour leader Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal (later as Deputy Prime Minister), Halifax as Foreign Secretary and Labour's Arthur Greenwood as a minister without portfolio.
Hace 4 días · He helped to abolish capital punishment, reformed the criminal justice system and oversaw major legal reforms on homosexuality, abortion, race relations and sexual equality. His patrons included Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell, while his protégés ranged from Tony Blair to Paddy Ashdown. Jenkins was always more than a politician.
Hace 2 días · On June 4, 1947, eight LEHI letter bombs addressed to high British government officials, including Prime Minister Clement Attlee, were discovered in London. On September 3, 1947, a postal bomb sent by either Irgun or LEHI exploded in the post office sorting room of the British War Office in London, injuring two.
Hace 4 días · Clement Attlee celebrates the Labour Party election victory with his wife, Violet (centre, right) and fellow MP WV Edwards (left) in Stepney, London, July 26 1945.
Hace 5 días · This is when national service ended in the UK (Image: PA) “It was therefore with difficulty that Clement Attlee's Labour government persuaded Parliament in 1947 to pass the National Service Act.”. Following this, national service came into force in January 1949. This meant that all “physically fit” males between the ages of 17 and 21 ...
