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Há 3 dias · Although Asquith was the party leader, its dominant figure was David Lloyd George. Asquith was overwhelmed by the wartime role of coalition prime minister and Lloyd George replaced him in late 1916, but Asquith remained as Liberal Party leader.
Há 2 dias · In 1917, he returned to government under David Lloyd George and served successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, overseeing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East.
Há 4 dias · Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler 1919-1940. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001, ISBN: 9780333919613; 200pp.; Price: £80.00. A. J. Sylvester, David Lloyd George's private secretary from 1921 until 1945, and who therefore should have had a better opportunity than most to reach a judgement, was, like most historians who have ...
Há 4 dias · As the war dragged on, his reputation recovered but he still lost his seat in the 1918 "Coupon Election", which saw the Liberal David Lloyd George's coalition government win a large majority. The election campaign in Leicester West focused on MacDonald's opposition to the war, with MacDonald writing after his defeat: "I have become a kind of mythological demon in the minds of the people".
Há 2 dias · David Lloyd George, prime minister 1916–22, whose contempt for Chamberlain was reciprocated. Twice in May 1940, Churchill broached the subject of bringing Lloyd George into the government. Each time, Chamberlain indicated that due to their longtime antipathy he would immediately retire if Lloyd George were appointed a minister.
Há 4 dias · Particularly for David Lloyd George, land-value taxation afforded both proposal for financing the 1909 ‘People’s Budget’, and a platform from which to attack landlords on a class basis. While these strategies divided Unionists and Liberals, as Paul Readman shows, both groups believed that landownership was crucial to the ...
Há 3 dias · In December 1916 the new British prime minister, David Lloyd George, sought to overcome the problems of waging the First World War through an unwieldy Cabinet by establishing a smaller, streamlined mechanism, the War Cabinet.
