ATTLEE, CLEMENT RICHARD, EARL°
- ATTLEE, CLEMENT RICHARD, EARL°
- ATTLEE, CLEMENT RICHARD, EARL° (1883–1967), British Labour
Party leader (1935–55), deputy prime minister in Churchill's war cabinet
(1940–45), and prime minister (1945–51). As a social worker in London's
East End in the 1920s, Attlee had contact with Jewish labor
organizations. Before he became prime minister, he expressed sympathy
for the Jewish cause in Palestine and opposed the 1939 White Paper (see
israel , Historical Survey). In December 1944 Attlee supported
Labour's official pronouncement in favor of a Jewish majority in
Palestine. As prime minister, however, he gave full support to the
policy of his foreign secretary, ernest bevin , which involved
Britain in a violent conflict with the Jews in Palestine in their
struggle for full-scale immigration, especially of the survivors of the
Holocaust, and for Jewish independence in Palestine. As Attlee was a
Fabian socialist, the ideological basis of Zionism had no appeal for
him. Later, Attlee defended his
policy in Palestine, claiming that incompatible assurances had been
given to Arabs and Jews and blaming American "irresponsibility." His
government recognized Israel in January
1949.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
C.R. Attlee, As It Happened (1954); Hugh Dalton,
Memoirs (1945–1960) (1962), index.
ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: K. Harris,
Attlee (1995); M. Jones, Failure in Palestine
(1986), index; ODNB online.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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