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4 giorni fa · A. J. Sylvester, David Lloyd George's private secretary from 1921 until 1945, and who therefore should have had a better opportunity than most to reach a judgement, was, like most historians who have tried to come to terms with the Welshman's energetic and enigmatic character, baffled by it.
4 giorni fa · Campaigns such as the one in Palestine also tell us much about the nature of civil-military relations in London as the British leader, David Lloyd George, and his ' generals', notably 'Wully' Robertson, struggled over the direction of the war.
4 giorni fa · As John Beckett and Michael Turner show, on the eve of the First World War, David Lloyd George was poised for political triumph with his ‘Land Campaign,’ which proposed a Ministry of Land and intensive rural development.
1 giorno fa · The Greek campaign was launched primarily because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, recently defeated in World War I.
5 giorni fa · David Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the People’s Budget to address social inequality and poverty by redistributing wealth through taxation and welfare reforms.
23 ore fa · David Lloyd George adopted a programme at the 1929 general election entitled We Can Conquer Unemployment!, although by this stage the Liberals had declined to third-party status. The Liberals as expressed in the Liberal Yellow Book now regarded opposition to state intervention as being a characteristic of right-wing extremists.
23 ore fa · 1911: First plans for a national insurance scheme were unveiled by Chancellor David Lloyd George in his budget speech. 1926: The General Strike began at midnight, the first in British history. It was called off on 13 May. 1935: Leicester Square tube station opened, with the world’s longest escalator.
