1. Home Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values".
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16 Facts About Home Minister
2. Home Minister completed the painting from the tower of the Villa Taylor in Marrakesh.
3. Home Minister thought this might have been the reason for the removal of Beria.
4. Home Minister refused to condemn the Soviet crushing of East Germany, commenting on 10 July 1953 that "The Russians were surprisingly patient about the disturbances in East Germany".
5. Home Minister made four official transatlantic visits to America during his second term as prime minister.
6. Home Minister held the office of Minister of Defence from October 1951 until 1 March 1952, when he handed the portfolio to Field Marshal Alexander.
7. Home Minister called for world unity through the UN, while stressing that Britain was uniquely placed to exert leadership through her links to the Commonwealth, the US and Europe.
8. Home Minister was one of the best paid writers of his time.
9. Home Minister believed that the Labour Party, as a socialist party, did not fully support the existing British Constitution.
10. Home Minister came fourth in the poll for Dundee, losing to prohibitionist Edwin Scrymgeour.
11. Home Minister was instrumental in having para-military forces intervene in the Irish War of Independence.
12. Home Minister was the main architect of the Ten Year Rule, a principle that allowed the Treasury to dominate and control strategic, foreign and financial policies under the assumption that "there would be no great European war for the next five or ten years".
13. Home Minister was elected prime minister in the 1951 election.
14. Home Minister led Satyagraha movement in Nagpur in the absence of Gandhi in 1923 against a law that restricted the hoisting of the Indian flag.
15. Home Minister worked for the equality of women, untouchability and caste discrimination in India.
16. Home Minister became one of the most successful barristers of India.