Clement Attlee's Cabinet (1945)

Clement Attlee's 1945 Cabinet. Photo by James Jarche/Popperfoto

 

British Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee (seated in front row, centre), with members of his new cabinet in the garden of No 10 Downing Street in London following Labour's victory in the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 23rd August 1945.

Front row, left to right: Leader of the House of Lords Christopher Addison, Lord Chancellor William Jowitt, President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal Arthur Greenwood, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee, Leader of the House of Commons Herbert Morrison, Chancellor Hugh Dalton, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Alexander, Home Secretary James Chuter Ede, and Minister of Education Ellen Wilkinson.

Back row, left to right: Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Labour George Isaacs, Secretary of State for Air William Wedgwood Benn, Colonies Secretary George Hall, Secretary of State for India and Burma Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for War Jack Lawson, Secretary of State for Scotland Joseph Westwood, Minister of Fuel and Power Manny Shinwell and Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams.

 

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British PM Chamberlain Waves to Spectators in Münich

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waves to spectators from an open-top car, shortly after leaving Oberwiesenfeld airport on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler over the latter's threats to invade Czechoslovakia, Münich, Germany, 28 September 1938. Sensing a looming catastrophe, Chamberlain flew to Münich to meet with Hitler and other European leaders – to try to work out a 'peaceful' settlement to the growing 'crisis' (which was completely a fabrication of Hitler's). Ultimately Chamberlain signed an agreement in which Hitler promised that he had no more territorial ambitions towards Czechoslovakia beyond the Sudetenland (a complete lie), and in which Chamberlain promised that he would lean on the Czech president Beneš to peacefully deliver the Sudetenland to Germany. Chamberlain congratulated himself on this supposedly brilliant piece of statesmanship because he understood that through this agreement between Hitler and himself he had saved Europe from falling into another horrible shooting match and indeed had secured “peace in our time.”

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