Ernest Bevin and other Labour leaders to develop an anti-Communist foreign policy in 1945–46. He collaborated with the American Federation of Labor to strengthen non-Communist unions around the world, especially in the West Indies. Personal life Walter Citrine married his life-time partner, Dorothy Ellen ('Doris') Slade (1892–1973) in 1914 and they had two sons. They settled in Wembley Park from 1925/6. In 1955 they were living at Dorislade 59, Royston Park Road, Hatch End (Pinner). His wife died in 1973.and Citrine later moved to Brixham in Devon. He took his title, Baron Citrine of Wembley from this long association. He is buried in Harrow Weald Cemetery. Sir Walter Citrine had been knighted in 1935, made a Privy Councillor in 1940 and a peer in 1946, when he retired from the TUC to become a member of the National Coal Board for a year. He then became chairman of the Central Electricity Authority from 1947 to 1957, (and a part-time board member for another five years), until he finally retired aged over seventy. He began attending debates in the House of Lords in the 1960s and made many well-received contributions throughout that decade. In 1975, Lord Citrine made his last appearance at the rostrum of his old union, the ETU, to receive the union's highest honour, its gold badge and the huge acclaim from the delegates. In the 1960s, he published his autobiography in two volumes, Men and Work (1964) and Two Careers (1967), which demonstrate considerable writing skills, as well as being one of the best accounts of his times, based on the meticulous shorthand notes he kept as the events unfolded. References Further reading Allen, V L. "The Re-Organization of the Trades Union Congress, 1918–1927," British Journal of Sociology (1960) 11#1 pp 14–43. in JSTOR Buchanan, Tom. "Citrine, Walter McLennan, first Baron Citrine (1887–1983)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004); online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 9 Nov 2012 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30931 Clegg, Hugh Armstrong. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, vol. 2, 1911–1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985). Clegg, Hugh Armstrong. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, vol. 3, 1934–1951 (1994). Riddell, Neil. "Walter Citrine and the British Labour Movement, 1925–1935," History (2000) 85#273 pp 285–306 Primary sources Citrine, Walter. I Search for Truth in Russia (1936). Citrine, W. ABC of Chairmanship (1939), a manual for labour meetings Lord Citrine [W. M. Citrine]. Men and