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Vor 2 Tagen · In May 1923 Bonar Law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and retired immediately; he died five months later. With many of the party's senior leading figures standing aloof and outside of the government, there were only two candidates to succeed him: Lord Curzon , the foreign secretary , and Baldwin.
Vor 4 Tagen · For more than half a century, Lord Beaverbrook lived and moved among the mighty in world affairs. Andrew Bonar Law, the only Canadian-born prime minister of the United Kingdom, and R.B. Bennett, the only New Brunswick-born prime minister of Canada, were friends of his youth and young manhood.
Vor einem Tag · In 1922, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin led the breakup of the coalition, and the Conservatives governed until 1923, when a minority Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald came to power. The Conservatives regained power in 1924 but were defeated in 1929 as a minority Labour government took office. In 1931, following the collapse of ...
Vor 2 Tagen · In due time the Bonar Law Papers also made their way to UNB, but were later returned to England. The 600,000 items in the Bennett Papers include documents, photographs, artifacts and books reflecting the political and personal life of Richard Bedford Bennett, from 1919-1947, with emphasis on his prime ministership, 1930-35.
Vor einem Tag · Neville Chamberlain. Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS ( / ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn /; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in ...
Vor 2 Tagen · On 17th March, Bonar Law, the Conservative Leader, who had been blamed for delaying Lloyd George’s Irish peace proposal, resigned from the Cabinet. Tory extremists were urging full-scale war and Lloyd George was very conscious of the danger to his Coalition Government. One in nine of the British labour force was unemployed and the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Though the authors touch on it, it would have been far more interesting to have had a much deeper forensic examination of Sykes’ significance in influencing the history of Zionism, Israel and the Middle East compared to his senior Unionist colleagues – Bonar-Law, Balfour, Milner, Curzon, Lord Robert Cecil, and Lord Derby – all of whom sat in the coalition government formed in December 1916.
