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In April 1951 Attlee's already weak position (the Labor majority in the House of Commons had been reduced to six) further deteriorated when two Labor leaders, Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson (afterward Prime Minister), resigned from the government over the introduction of National Health-service charges, which were bitterly opposed by the public. When the Conservatives narrowly won the election of October 1951, Attlee resigned. On yielding the party leadership in December 1955, he was created an Earl. In 1937 he published The Labour Party in Perspective and in 1954 his memoirs, "As It Happened". He was active in the House of Lords until his death in 1967. [http://www.mdlg05075.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/attlee.htm]