Word: listowel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence Day, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee presented to the House of Commons an Indian independence bill. It was, said the bespectacled, scholarly Earl of Listowel, last Secretary of State for India, a "nice, neat, tidy little bill." The bill was certainly neater than the mess Indians will try to clear up before the British leave on August...
...Beaver's agitation-which his friend Winston Churchill terms "a process of emphatic stimulation"-was not as significant as its reception. Lord Trenchard criticized Lord Beaverbrook for arousing the British people, who could not be told the true facts just now. The Earl of Listowel accused the Beaver of doing "a positive disservice to the country" by bringing the matter up at this juncture. Viscount Simon said that the discussion was "absolutely dangerous," called the term second front a "catchpenny phrase," based on ill-informed clamor...