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Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard)

Clement Attlee was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945-1951. Clement Attlee succeeded Winston Churchill, and was present at the final allied war conference in Potsdam, Germany, in August 1945, and worked during his term to solidify relations with the U.S. Prior to serving as Prime Minister, Attlee was Mayor of Stepney, England, 1919-1922; Member of Parliament, 1922-1924; Undersecretary of State for War, 1924-1929; and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Postmaster General, 1929-1931.

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1954

Australian Government Trade Commissioner, Hong Kong, to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs, 'Visit to China by the British Labour Party Delegation'

This is a report on a visit by Clement Attlee's Labor Party delegation to China in August 1954. The report covers wide ground, summarizing the delegates' experiences and views on events in China, and contains a short account of Attlee's conversation with Mao Zedong. Mao and Attlee disagreed about the Soviet Union's policy towards Eastern Europe, and Mao, after defending the Soviet record, in the end admitted that he simply did not know enough about the situation in Eastern Europe. There was also some discussion of Taiwan, though Attlee was given the impression that China would not attack Taiwan for at least 10 years. There is also an interesting quote: "The delegation... received or were confirmed in the impression that the Chinese Government was... living in a world of delusions. The state had been reached where the Central People's Government viewed the outside world not as it was but according to how they thought it should be."