An important pillar of British foreign policy throughout the Churchill era, and before to that during the Attlee era, was Britain's backing of America's western defense against Communist attack. It was when he was out of government in 1946 that Winston Churchill first proposed the fundamental idea of a "fraternal alliance" between the British Commonwealth and the United States in order to dissuade aggressors and maintain global peace. 10 Attlee and Bevin followed the idea by committing the United Kingdom to the North Atlantic alliance in 1949 and launching Britain's rearmament program under Labor rule. Once in power, the Labor Party maintained its support for western unity and collaboration with the United States.
Aneurin Bevan's newest outburst was a direct attack on Attlee and the moderate side of the Labor Party's nonpartisan foreign policy ideas, which were endorsed with minor reservations. Attlee had given cautious support to Foreign Secretary Eden's statement of British-American intentions to pursue a collective security agreement in Asia and the Pacific before the assault was launched in the Commons on April 13. 11 The agreement with the United States would be "much despised" by most people in Great Britain, and it would be "universally perceived as a capitulation to American pressure," Bevan said, disregarding Attlee's assertion.
The Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom and the Unity of the West
Many moderate Labor Party members, as well as some Conservatives, had expressed concern over Secretary Dulles' declaration of "immediate reprisal" in January. Concern and displeasure had been expressed in Parliament when Dulles urged for "unified action" to stop Communist aggression in Indo-China at the end of March.
Bevan drew on misgivings and worries held by a large number of Britons
The Conservatives ran their election campaign on an anti-nationalization platform in the United Kingdom during the previous general election.. A bill denationalizing the iron and steel sector was one of the new government's first moves, and it ultimately became law in May 1953. Other than returning long-distance trucking to private ownership via law, the Labor administration has made no steps to denationalize any of the other businesses or services it nationalized.