Word: stennett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Leopold Stennett Amery, 81, Tory elder statesman, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24), Colonial Secretary (1924-29), wartime Secretary of State for India and Burma under the Commonwealth (1940-45), author (Empire and Prosperity); in his sleep at his home; in London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grâce to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John...