Ernest Bevin was Britain’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the post WW2 period 1945-51. Bevin recognized that Britain needed strong allies and international relationships in order to recover from the disastrous economic and geopolitical effects of the war. To reach this goal, Bevin forged a special diplomatic relationship with the United States. He […]

Herbert Morrison was the British Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons during the period 1945-51. The Labour government owes much of its postwar success to Morrison, whose outstanding organizational and leadership skills provided the management and direction for the restructuring of the British economy after WW2. He was one of the […]

Aneurin Bevan served as the Minister of Health in Attlee’s Labour government in the post-WW2 period. Bevan’s political ability and oratorical skill earned him the respect of The Times as “the Labour Party’s most brilliant member in debate”.  The son of a Welsh coal miner, Bevan witnessed the condition of the working class, including poverty, […]

William Beveridge provided the creative thought-leadership for the social development policies that contributed to the economic recovery of Britain in the postwar period. Early in his career, Beveridge had served as an advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George on pensions and insurance and had gained recognition as the nation’s leading expert on unemployment insurance. […]

John Maynard Keynes provided the thought-leadership in macroeconomics that enabled Britain’s Labour government to implement the policies that produced the nation’s post-WW2 economic recovery. Listed among Time magazine’s “Most Important People of the Century” in 1999, John Maynard Keynes is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and visionary economists of the 20th century. […]

Clement Attlee became British Prime Minister in 1945. During the ensuing six years under his leadership, the nation was transformed from a wartime economy on the brink of bankruptcy to a prosperous and more egalitarian society. A serious, modest, and patriotic man, Attlee is heralded as one of the greatest Prime Ministers of the 20th […]