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Britain faces crisis as Attlee cabinet mismanages postwar policy
The letter portrays a nation nearing a financial crisis with a misfiring Cabinet. It questions Attlee’s coal and timber plans and accuses ministers of ignorance while Britain relies on American aid. It compares Palestine to India and argues a Mountbatten-like decision may end the Palestine deadlock through withdrawal or partition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attlee
House of Commons
Coal Board
Aneurin Bevan
Strachey
Cabinet
U.S.A
Britain
Mr. Attlee
Ernest Bevin
Cripps
Labour Party
Palestine
pre-Mountbatten India
India
Mountbatten
Gandhi
U.K
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