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21 mag 2024 · On 1 July, a Cabinet level meeting arranged the formation of a single sabotage organisation. On 16 July, Hugh Dalton, the Minister of Economic Warfare, was appointed to take political responsibility for the new organisation, which was formally created on 22 July 1940.
2 giorni fa · Hugh Dalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted out key details to a newspaper reporter, and they appeared in print before he made his speech. Dalton was forced to resign.
18 mag 2024 · In November 1 940, Gubbins became acting Brigadier, and at the request of Hugh Dalton, the Minister of Economic Warfare, he was appointed as the director of operations and training of the SOE, which had been created by Winston Churchill to “set Europe ablaze” with sabotage and subversion.
6 giorni fa · 33 Pimlott, Diary of Hugh Dalton, pp. 238–239. 34 H. Gibson, ed. The Ciano Diaries 1939–1943: The Complete Unabridged Dairies of Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1936–1943 (New York: Doubleday 1945) pp. 372–375.
6 mag 2024 · Hugh Dalton was one of the most effective and strangest of modern political leaders. Born the son of a tutor to royal princes, Dalton was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was taught by Maynard Keynes, fell under the spell of Rupert Brooke, and learned about socialism from Keir Hardie and Beatrice Webb.
1 giorno fa · At this time, Wilson was not yet regarded as a heavyweight politician: Hugh Dalton referred to him scornfully as "Nye [Bevan]'s dog". After Labour lost the 1951 election, he became the Chairman of Keep Left, Bevan's political group.
22 mag 2024 · Price: £60.00. Andrew Thorpe’s fourth edition of A History of the British Labour Party provides a much needed update to what has become one of the leading volumes on the Labour Party since its first edition in 1997. The book, spanning 412 pages, provides an engaging read into the history of the Labour Party.
