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5 giorni fa · Harold Macmillan, former chancellor (1955–57) and prime minister (1957–63), suggested that economic policymakers, like the circus juggler, had four balls to simultaneously keep in the air during the post-war period: “full employment, an expanding economy, stable prices and a strong pound”. [1]
4 giorni fa · Kynaston employs the same style in Modernity Britain as in the previous two volumes in this series: a blizzard of quotations from contemporary diaries and letters adorn most pages, and Phillip Larkin rubs shoulders with the likes of Florence Turtle and Harold Macmillan.
2 giorni fa · Yet, it is with his discussion of Harold Macmillan’s attempt at a ‘Middle Way’ in the volatile 1930s that Dorey’s research strengths come into their own.
3 giorni fa · When Harold Macmillan was appointed his successor in preference to R. A. Butler, Lady Eden wrote to Butler (whom two years earlier she had described in her diary as "curiously unnatural" [166]) that she thought politics "a beastly profession ... and how greatly I admire your dignity and good humour".
2 giorni fa · ^ He was born and known until 1917 as Prince Louis of Battenberg, then styled until 1946 Lord Louis Mountbatten, and then styled The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma until 1947.
3 giorni fa · Chapter titles indicate, roughly, the representative roles of the various servicemen selected: for example, Alfred Pollard and John Reith as the ‘Fire-eaters’; General F. P. Crozier as ‘Martinet, militarist and opponent of war; and Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, somewhat ironically, ‘having a “good war”’.
2 giorni fa · Under the leadership of Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, and Alec Douglas-Home, the Conservative Party came to accept the key tenets of the “postwar consensus” with Labour—that is, it recognized the state’s responsibility for maintaining full employment and endorsed the use of techniques of economic-demand ...
