1. The 'British War Party' in the Interwar Period.
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Neilson, Francis
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BRITISH politics & government ,POLITICAL parties ,POLITICIANS ,WAR - Abstract
The article discusses the political developments in Great Britain between the First and the Second World War. A general election held in England soon after the First World War came to an end, completed the disaster that was already besetting the Liberal Party. Lloyd George became Prime Minister and his cabinet was a mottled one. Its members showed traces of the scars inflicted upon the party during the struggle. The mixture of Tory, Conservative and Liberal-Unionist with the National Liberals and one or two members of the Labor Party seemed to change the character and composition of the House, as it had been known before August 1914. After nearly four years, the national government disappeared and Lloyd George retired from the ministerial scene. There was no one, then, of outstanding ability in any party who was fighting for a seat in Parliament. Indeed, one of the leading London papers spoke of the dearth of men available to put the country on its feet again. The pre-war parliamentarians were an aging lot, it was said, and little could be expected from them after their sore trials of fighting the war from the camp in Downing Street.
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- 1959
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