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Há 1 dia · Churchill and his fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908. Asquith succeeded the terminally ill Campbell-Bannerman on 8 April 1908 and, four days later, Churchill was appointed President of the Board of Trade. Aged 33, Churchill was the youngest Cabinet member since 1866.
Há 5 dias · First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill. London, Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2015, ISBN: 9781781313060; 400pp.; Price: £25.00. In late 1909, a suffragette attacked the Asquith government’s youthful President of the Board of Trade, slashing his face with a whip as he prepared to give a speech in Bristol station.
Há 1 dia · The Women's International Democratic Federation ( WIDF) is an international women's rights organization. Established in 1945, it was most active during the Cold War when, according to historian Francisca de Haan, it was "the largest and probably most influential international women's organization of the post-1945 era".
Há 2 dias · Truman journeyed to Berlin for the Potsdam Conference with Joseph Stalin and the British leader Winston Churchill. He was there when he learned the Trinity test—the first atomic bomb—on July 16 had been successful. He hinted to Stalin that he was about to use a new kind of weapon against the Japanese.
Há 3 dias · In April 1921, he was appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies, under Churchill who was initially reluctant to meet him (on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he "expected to be treated like a gentleman").
Há 3 dias · Attlee was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition twice from 1935 to 1940 and from 1951 to 1955. He remains the longest serving Labour leader. Attlee was born into an upper-middle-class family, the son of a wealthy London solicitor.
Há 1 dia · Churchill depicted Chamberlain as well-meaning but weak, blind to the threat posed by Hitler, and oblivious to the fact that (according to Churchill) Hitler could have been removed from power by a grand coalition of European states.
