The role of the War Council in addressing the internal crises of the British people 1939-1944

Abstract

After Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, Britain prepared for that danger, so Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced on May 10, 1940 the creation of the War Cabinet, or the so-called War Council, which consisted of five members: Clement Attlee, Greenwood for the Labor Party, Churchill, Chamberlain and Edward Halifax On the authority of the governors. This council began its work when the northern French border was attacked by Germany, in which they destroyed hospitals and ambulances. As a result, the members of the War Council visited France on May 16 and 17, 1940 after the French Prime Minister Paul Raynaud appealed to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, so he decided Members of the War Council, including Clement Attlee, need to support the 335,000 British and French forces besieged in the port of Dunkirk and save them from death or capture. They also made changes in the leaderships present there, including the dismissal of the Allied Commander-in-Chief, General Gamlan, and the appointment of General Wiegand in his place. On the inside side, the War Council was the government engine through what its members provided, headed by Clement Attlee, who was able to provide services to many British cities and neighborhoods. It was sabotaged by the German bombing, and among those services is the evacuation of schoolchildren, accompanied by their teachers and their families, to safer areas, as well as providing clothes and sheltering them in Northampton, Wales and Scotland, northwest of London, and allocated nearly 500,000 pounds as insurance for the risks of war.

As well as allocating 100,000 homes to receive children and their families, so that the number of those evacuated from London to those cities on April 1, 1941 is approximately 435,539 children. During the years 1942-1945, Clement Attlee provided services, especially after he became Deputy Prime Minister, including his speeches at the Liverpool Club in northwest England, in which he emphasized that the battle is a spiritual contest between good and evil, and that Hitler embodied evil and injustice in the character of the German people and had speeches In 1944, stressing the necessity of setting post-war peace frameworks, because the future of Hitler and the Germans is dark and over, and the British government must adopt future plans and rebuild what the war destroyed by relying on the material and youth energies of the country.