| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) |
| Summary |
"Frankly, he had no use for the National Government. He feared the Conservative Party had been led astray by strange gods and had departed from its old ideals. This was how the Norfolk Chronicle summed up the speech of Colonel Thomas Purdy to a gathering of the North Norfolk Conservative Association in January 1935. The colonel was well known in the county. He had served as an officer in the Norfolk Regiment during the Great War, including as a company major with the men of the king's Sandringham estate who met their fate in Gallipoli. A lifelong Conservative and party activist, he had railed against the cross-party National government's 'un-Conservative' policies since the formation of that administration in 1931. Continued membership, he warned, amounted to self-destruction. He had most emphatically not, he said, become a Conservative in order to support coalition government, much less so one led since 1931 by a Labour prime minister. Ramsay MacDonald was a peace campaigner during the war and a socialist whose policies now included far-reaching reforms to the Indian constitution, a particular bugbear for Purdy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Conservative Party (Great Britain) -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Conservative Party (Great Britain) fast |
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Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Conservatism
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056918
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056919
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108651798 |
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9781108672849 |
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1108672841 |
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9781108651790 |
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