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4 giorni fa · In order to aid the discussions, the War Cabinet Secretariat, led by Maurice Hankey, the Cabinet Secretary and supported by his Assistant Secretaries – primarily Sykes and his fellow Conservative MP and pro-Zionist Leo Amery – solicited outside perspectives to put before the Cabinet.
14 giu 2024 · In Großbritannien war Leo Amery (1873 bis 1955, zwischen 1922 und 1945 mehrfach britischer Minister) der wichtigste Fürsprecher von Paneuropa. Er war ein Schulfreund und Weggefährte von Winston Churchill, dem er Coudenhove-Kalergi dann auch erstmals vorstellte.
6 giu 2024 · Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India, who had known Churchill since their schooldays at Harrow, thought “Winston was evidently greatly stirred and also at the end of his tether nervously, and no wonder.
1 giorno fa · Leo Amery later told a malicious story that Wilson had suggested gathering the brigade majors together to arrest their commanding general, although Wilson in fact seems to have thought highly of Lyttelton at this time.
1 giorno fa · Leo Amery's Times History, highly critical of British generalship during this period, later wrote of his "almost unbroken series of successes", showing grasp of tactics. Cavalry—often fighting dismounted—never made up more than half of his force, and were usually outnumbered three-to-one by Boer cavalry. [69]
10 giu 2024 · The Lidice massacre was one of the most brutal reprisals carried out by Nazi forces during World War II. It took place on June 10, 1942, in the village of Lidice, which was then part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic.
22 giu 2024 · Leopold Amery was director of the Southern Railway from 1932. A Birmingham Member of Parliament for many years, he was a statesman of some stature, his high offices including Secretary of State for the Colonies in the 1920s.
