Harry S. Truman and Clement Attlee: 'Trouble always brings us together'

By the time the Japanese surrender brought the Second World War to an end in September 1945, two of the three statesmen who had led the Allied Powers to victory were no longer in command. While Joseph Stalin retained dictatorial control of the Soviet Union, American president Franklin D. Roosevelt lay dead from a cerebral hemorrhage and the British electorate had ousted Prime Minister Winston Churchill from office.