Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limit naval armaments with the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
Promises. Political observers re-examined the platform of the Labor party to see what might be expected if and when another MacDonald government runs Britain. The Labor party had advocated...
...Development of Britain's unused land, reforestation, roadbuilding, swamp-draining...
Germany too was cheered at the prospect of a Labor government in Britain. All of the more liberal aspects of Britain's foreign policy were inaugurated by the last MacDonald administration. German optimists foresaw speedy evacuation of the Rhineland, quick ratification of the Young Plan...