Carlton, David MacDonald Versus Henderson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carlton, David MacDonald Versus Henderson write by . This book was released on 1970. Carlton, David MacDonald Versus Henderson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
MacDonald versus Henderson
MacDonald versus Henderson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MacDonald versus Henderson write by David Carlton. This book was released on 1970-06-18. MacDonald versus Henderson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
MacDonald's Party
MacDonald's Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook MacDonald's Party write by David Howell. This book was released on 2002-09-05. MacDonald's Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Labour Party became a major political force during the 1920s. It unexpectedly entered office as a minority government in 1924; five years later as the largest party in the Commons it took office again. For many the party's enhanced status was associated closely with its leader, Ramsay MacDonald. The years of optimism were destroyed by rising unemployment; in August 1931, the second Labour Government faced pressures for public expenditure cuts in the midst of a financial crisis. The Government collapsed, and MacDonald led a new administration composed of erstwhile opponents and a few old colleagues. Labour went into opposition; an early election reduced it to a parliamentary rump. This study offers a uniquely detailed analysis of Labour in the 1920s based on a wide variety of unpublished sources. The emphasis is on the variety of identities available within the party, and demonstrates how disputes over identity made a crucial contribution to the 1931 crisis. Thorough scholarship and distinctive interpretation combine to provide an important examination of a major episode in twentieth-century history.
British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940
British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940 write by Henry Winkler. This book was released on 2017-10-24. British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since World War II, the British Labour Party has played a central role in dealing with complex international issues. Achieving real power in parliament for the first time, Labour governments have acted responsibly, and are usually in accord with the views of a substantial majority of the British people. Such was not always the case. In British Labour Seeks a Foreign Policy, 1900-1940, Henry R. Winkler synthesizes twenty years' study of the subject to offer the first full-scale treatment of the Labour Party's evolution in foreign affairs. The Labour Party came into existence at the beginning of the twentieth century to deal with the domestic problems of the working class, and it showed relatively little interest in foreign policy issues. In the aftermath of World War I, however, small groups of moderates made the case against the bitter rejection of the Versailles Treaty by many in the Labour Party and the trade union movement. Most of these argued that the League of Nations could be used to remedy some of the deficiencies of the settlement and that such a League must have the sanction of force if it was to be effective. During the 1930s, the failures of the League--in the Far East, Abyssinia, Spain, and Central Europe--compelled some of its advocates to conclude that, League or no League, the threat from Nazi Germany mandated support for a program of preparedness and rearmament even under the aegis of a hated National Government. The result, by 1937, was the final formal abandonment of many of the radical illusions of the twenties and thirties, as Labour reluctantly but formally assumed a posture that enabled it to share in the governance of wartime Britain and to take a key role in dealing with the international issues that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War. This volume contains valuable lessons on the responsibilities of political parties as well as the pros and cons of specific policies. It is essential reading for understanding Britain's later stands as its leaders tried to adjust to Britain's diminished power in the post-World War II world.
The Zinoviev Letter
The Zinoviev Letter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Zinoviev Letter write by Gill Bennett. This book was released on 2018-08-12. The Zinoviev Letter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance almost a century later: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet 'fake news'. Despite this, the Letter still haunts British politics nearly a century after it was written; it was the subject of major Whitehall investigations in the 1960s and 1990s, and cropped up in the media as recently as during the Referendum campaign and the 2017 general election. The Letter, encouraging the British proletariat to greater revolutionary fervour, was apparently sent by Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Bolshevik propaganda organization, to the British Communist Party in September 1924. Sent to London through British Secret Intelligence Service channels, it arrived during the general election campaign and was leaked to the press. The Letter's publication by the Daily Mail on 25 October 1924 just before the General Election humiliated the first ever British Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald, when its political opponents used it to create a 'Red Scare' in the media. Labour blamed the Letter for its defeat, insisting there had been a right-wing Establishment conspiracy, and many in the Labour Party have never forgotten it. The Zinoviev Letter has long been a symbol of political dirty tricks and what we would now call 'fake news'. But it is also a gripping historical detective story of spies and secrets, fraud and forgery, international subversion and the nascent global conflict between communism and capitalism.
