Word: margesson
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Eden's successor in the portfolio for war, Churchill chose Parliament's famed Tory Chief Whip, Captain David Margesson...
...there was more than an outside chance of dislodging Chamberlain. An energetic show of confidence by the Prime Minister might have staved off a vote by the House. Labor and Liberals have only 197 seats to 418 for the Conservatives and their supporters, and Chief Party Whip Captain David Margesson has been able to keep many disgruntled "ginger group" Conservatives in line. But as the second day's debate began, it became plain that the Opposition sensed its advantage, would push it for all it was worth...
...minutes after the division, Whip Margesson announced the result: for adjournment, 281 votes; against, 200. Almost every man in uniform had voted against the Government. A split second later, Laborites, Liberals and dissident Conservatives began shouting: "Resign! Go! Go!" Neville Chamberlain rose, smiled wanly, and marched out of the House...
...Captain Margesson's great & good friend Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose sterner political chores the Captain does, was not in quite such a bad fix as Parliament sat again. But he was in no good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME...
...Feckless William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison lost both the Ministry of Food and the Chancellery of the Duchy of Lancaster, but Neville Chamberlain and Captain Margesson found a seat for this faithful Party hack in the Postmaster Generalship, where he cannot be heckled as farmers and consumers have heckled him. Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage...