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Sep 12, 2024 · L.S. Amery was a British politician who was a persistent advocate of imperial preference and tariff reform and did much for colonial territories. He is also remembered for his part in bringing about the fall of the government of Neville Chamberlain in 1940.
May 26, 2024 · However, it was the speech by Conservative backbencher Leo Amery that would go down in history, thanks to his invocation of Cromwell‘s famous words. Amery, who had long been a critic of Chamberlain‘s appeasement policies, rose to address the House on May 7.
Nov 7, 2023 · One of the key advocates for strategic dispersal during the war was Leo Amery, then Secretary of State for India, who had been a prominent supporter of assisted migration to the Dominions between the wars.
Nov 9, 2023 · Over the course of his career spanning journalism, intelligence, and the Admiralty, he had cultivated a near-religious devotion to the British Empire as the ‘final object of patriotic emotion and action.’ Lavin, “Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett (1873-1955),”; online ed., accessed 3 July, 2020.
Mar 11, 2024 · Influential journalist Leo Amery delivered a particularly savage barb when he wrote that army was “largely a sham” when it came to real fighting against determined opponents. A Royal Commission was swiftly assembled to probe the reasons behind the poor performance, leading to uncomfortable questions for senior British officers.
Apr 17, 2024 · Leo Amery. British politician and journalist. 48 works Add another? Sorted by: Most Editions | First Published | Most Recent | Top Rated | Reading Log | Random. Showing all works by author. Would you like to see only ebooks? 1 2 3 Next > The Times history of the war in South Africa: 1899-1902.
May 31, 2024 · Most historians and students of the British Empire have heard of the Empire Marketing Board, the body created by the Colonial Secretary Leo Amery as a substitute for tariff reform and imperial protectionism. Active between 1926 and 1933, it was declared redundant after the Ottawa agreements of 1932.
Aug 9, 2024 · On August 4, 1943, Amery urged the War Cabinet to consider the seriousness of the “(British) Indian demand for 500,000 tons… the Cabinet treated the matter as a bluff on India’s part” (The Leo Amery Diaries, August 4, 1943).
Dec 22, 2023 · Churchill as prime minister represented unanimity on India in his War Cabinet. Including even its Labour members and the pro-reform Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery, they all agreed that the height of a world war was not an appropriate moment to make major constitutional changes in India.
Nov 24, 2023 · One of those to whom he was closest was the conservative politician and prolific political theoriser Leo Amery. The Menzies Collection contains 11 Amery books, 8 of which have been personally inscribed by the author.
