In Portraits and Miniatures, Roy Jenkins brings his penetrating intelligence and elegant prose to subjects ranging from literature and political history to wine and croquet. Long experience in both Houses of Parliament and as President of the European Commission has given him unparalleled insight...
Its first half had been singularly barren of liberal achievement. Ireland, Bradlaugh, and the perpetually festering split between Whigs and radicals had combined to put an almost complete stop to controversial domestic legislation. Had the Government resigned at the beginning of 1883 it would hav...
This may indeed have been an underlying cause of the revival of Baldwin’s own fortunes. The lively hope of success is always a good healer for a political party and a prop to the position of its leader. Unemployment, reacting to the world slump and concentrated in the export trades, had risen ste...
In the depression the American Legion demanded immediate cash payments. The issue was not resolved until January 1936. Hoover treated the ‘Bonus Marchers’, who camped in Washington in the summer of 1932, with cold legality. He sent the Army, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, with hi...
1835–1909. Formerly Mr. Speaker Gully. 2 1856–1942. St. John Brodrick. Succeeded to Viscountcy, 1907. Created 1st Earl of Midleton, 1920. Conservative member for Surrey, West, 1880–85, and for Guildford, 1885–1906. Secretary of State for War, 1900–3, and for India, 1903–5. 1 The chief Conservativ...
is still handsome, and like all the Orleans family, quite good company,” the Prime Minister recorded), and were steaming towards Gibraltar. A few hours before they arrived a wireless message was received from Lord Knollys with the information that the King had become gravely ill and was in a crit...
1925, was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank 1978–9, and Secretary of the Treasury 1979–81. 71 Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu, b. 1929. Under-Secretary of the Treasury 1974–8, Chairman of the Deputies’ Group of Ten 1976–8. Managing Director and Chairman of the Board of IMF 1978–86; Governor o...
In the late winter of 1872 he had been arraigned before the House of Commons for two displays of arrogant corner-cutting. In the first case he wished to appoint Sir Robert Collier to a vacancy on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Collier, who later became Lord Monkswell and founded an ...