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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

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Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth

by Yousuf Karsh
sepia-toned bromide print, 1943
9 1/8 in. x 6 5/8 in. (232 mm x 169 mm)
Purchased, 1989
Primary Collection
NPG P402

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  • Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 159 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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The Canadian photographer, Karsh, recalled how he approached his subject with Morrison's reputation as an archetypal cockney in mind. During the sitting, Morrison displayed the 'boundless energy and impatience of the cockney', making the type of 'pungent retorts' that endeared him to 'British Labour audiences.' One image from the set appeared in the Illustrated London News in August 1945 in a feature on the new Labour government. This particular photograph gained added poignancy, when Morrison gave it to his Private Secretary, Ethel McDonald, in 1954, thereby indicating his nostalgic liking for this representation of his earlier political self.

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Current affairs

The War effort continues with women recruited to the Home Guard and Ernie Bevin introducing conscription of miners as coal output continues to flag.
There is panic when a new anti aircraft weapon is heard for the first time in London and 173 people die in the crush to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.

Art and science

Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb is used during Operation Chastise - the Dam busters Raid - to destroy three dams in the Ruhr area of Germany. The raid was considered a success, knocking out hydroelectric power, cutting off the water supply to industry and causing devastation through flooding. The operation also, however, cost the allies many lives, and the bouncing bomb was not used again.

International

The invasion of Sicily is successful thanks to Operation Mincemeat, in which false documents were planted on the body of a dead airman to mislead Germany into thinking that the Allied target was Sardinia. The invasion led to the fall of Mussolini and Italy joining the Allies.
42,000 German civilians are killed in a firestorm in Hamburg caused by the Allied bombing in Operation Gomorrah.

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