Labour in PowerJanuary 13, 2012

William Beveridgeand his report (1942)

Winston Churchill – more convincing at war than at peace

Britain’s general election, July 1945

Clement Attlee, the

victor of 1945

Of 640 seats in the House of Commons:

Labour wins 393 seats (up from 154)Conservatives win 197 seats (down from 386)Liberals win 12 seats (down from 21)

Manchester, July 5, 1948:The National Health Servicetreats its first official patient

Britain’s empire in 1945:yellow = formal empire or Commonwealth

shaded = informal control

Stafford Cripps, the apostle of austerity

Austerity Britain: rationing

Austerity Britain: working-class communities

Austerity Britain: postwar family life

Ernest Bevin:trade unionist & foreign minister

British instructors

training Greeks, ca. 1947

(for more photos from the Greek Civil War: click here)

Bevin washes his hands of Palestine

Partitioning India: Lord Mountbatten meets with

Nehru, Gandhi, Jinnah

and develops the “Mountbatten Plan”

August 15, 1947: Indian

independence& the creation of

Pakistan

Communal riots in Delhi during the Partition

Partitioning India: Mass flight – in both directions

Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain” speechat Westminster College, Fulton, MO (March 5, 1946)

President Harry Truman announces the “Truman Doctrine” to Congress (March 12, 1947)

NATO signing ceremony (April 4, 1949)

Original members:USACanadaIcelandNorwayDenmarkUnited KingdomFranceBelgiumNetherlandsLuxembourgPortugalItaly

The founding of the Council of Europe (May 1949)Permanent Base: Strasbourg, France

Winston Churchill speaks to throngs in Strasbourg (August 1949)