When the Korean War broke out the British government immediately supported the UN effort to remove the North Korean invaders from the south. The newly appointed British Chancellor of the Exchequer found extra cash for this cause by introducing new NHS charges for false teeth and glasses. What was his name?

Attlee's Labour government soon found that it was becoming more friendly to the United States than to its former ally the Soviet Union. Accordingly Bevin and Attlee committed Britain to an atlanticist foreign policy.