Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Clement Attlee
Standard Name: Attlee, Clement
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She was buried in Golders Green Cemetery. |
| death | Beatrice Webb | Her body was cremated and buried at Passfield Corner, until at Bernard Shaw
's somewhat incongruous suggestion, the ashes of both Webbs were re-buried together in Politicians' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 12 December 1947... |
| Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons
, and was soon... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)... |
| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Maurice Percy Ashley
in the Times Literary Supplement wrote that this sympathetic biography, while it contained little that was absolutely new, would make valuable reading for all but experts in its subject. Ashley, Maurice Percy. “Apostle of Disarmament”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1885, p. 177. 177 |
| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Without being lively in the usual sense, wrote the Times Literary Supplement reviewer, the book is live-minded all through. Fyfe, H. Hamilton. “Labour Member”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2242, p. 33. 33 |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | By 1930, Kingsley Martin
, editor of New Statesman and Nation, noted that Time and Tide was one of the leading British weeklies. It was read by the leaders of the country, including Prime... |
| politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian. |
| politics | G. B. Stern | As a schoolgirl GBS
had a brief spell of interest in politics, when she admired Joseph Chamberlain
, wanted to get into parliament, and supported tariff reform. In 1933 she was actually sounded out about... |
| Reception | Eleanor Rathbone | During ER
's lifetime the leaders of both major political parties, Winston Churchill
and Clement Attlee
(whose regard for her was equally high), repeatedly urged her to accept honours of various kinds, but she refused... |
Timeline
24 February 1934
The National Council for Civil Liberties
was founded by journalist Ronald Kidd
, who had witnessed the treatment of hunger marchers in London in November 1932.
17 July-2 August 1945
The Potsdam Conference convened to plan the Allied occupation of Germany and the enactment of principles agreed on at the Yalta Conference.
26 July 1945
The postwar general election put the Labour Party
in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee
became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison
, Ernest Bevin
, Hugh Dalton
, and Sir...
15-16 August 1945
VJ Day produced two days of celebrations for victory over Japan. The king
and the new Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee
, made broadcasts to mark the occasion.
April 1946
A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee
's Labour
government visited Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale scheme for cultivating groundnuts (peanuts).
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head, 1950.
December 1950
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee
flew to Washington, DC, apparently seeking to deflect US President Harry S. Truman
from a possible plan to use nuclear weapons against CommunistNorth Korea.
26 October 1951
At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee
polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill
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