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    Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery CH (22 November 1873 – 16 September 1955), also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative politician and...
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    ended. Born in Chelsea, London, John Amery (known as "Jack") was the elder of two children of British statesman Leo Amery (1873–1955), a member of parliament...
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    Italy during the Second World War. Amery was born in Chelsea, London, on 27 March 1919. His father was Leo Amery, a British statesman and Conservative...
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    Conservative MP Leo Amery said Chamberlain's speech left the House in a restive and depressed, though not yet mutinous, state of mind. Amery believed that...
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  • fascist, executed for treason Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, British Conservative politician Leo Amery (1873–1955), British Conservative politician...
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  • Curtis in the form of imperial federation, though key contributors such as Leo Amery and later consensus called merely for co-operation. In that year and the...
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    increased by the publication of private remarks made to Secretary for India Leo Amery, in which Churchill allegedly said aid would be inadequate because "Indians...
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    Secretaries – primarily Sykes and his fellow Conservative MP and pro-Zionist Leo Amery – solicited outside perspectives to put before the Cabinet. These included...
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  • supported in his views by the Conservative Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery. However, the United States, Britain's principal ally, saw things in even...
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    in Parliament by Conservative MPs, including Amery, to whom Wilson was feeding information. On Leo Amery's suggestion Wilson's colleague Gerald Ellison...
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  • Cabal was a 'ginger group' of influential people set up in London by Leo Amery at the start of 1916 to discuss war policy. The nucleus of the group consisted...
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    resulting in his early fatality. In a letter from Viceroy Linlithgow to Sir Leo Amery dated two days after Khan's death, the Viceroy offered a lengthy personal...
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    (including John Herbert, the Governor of Bengal; Viceroy Linlithgow; Leo Amery the Secretary of State for India; General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief...
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    classes," Conservative backbencher and former First Lord of the Admiralty Leo Amery shouted, "Speak for England, Arthur!" implying that the Prime Minister...
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  • mathematician (b. 1877) 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881) 1955 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the...
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    O'Brien 1979, p. 375. Amery, Julian (1969). The Life of Joseph Chamberlain. Vol. Six, 1903–1968. London: MacMillan. Amery, Leo (1953a). My Political Life...
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  • (1942) Bengal famine (1943) Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland Leo Amery Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Appointed by King...
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  • The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 3 April 2024. Amery, Leo (1929–1945). The Leo Amery Diaries. Hutchinson (published 1980). ISBN 978-0-09-167290-4...
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    Winston Churchill (who initially rose to catch the Speakers' eye to speak), Leo Amery, Vyvyan Adams, and Harold Nicolson. He became a Conservative dissenter...
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    interests, which his predecessor as Colonial Secretary, the Conservative Leo Amery, has attempted to water-down in 1927 when setting up the Hilton Young...
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    Peel – Secretary of State for India Lord Novar – Secretary for Scotland Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the...
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    could be sent food. Leo Amery likened Churchill's understanding of India's problems to King George III's apathy for the Americas. Amery wrote "on the subject...
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    Nazi Germany in its war against Britain. John Amery, the son of prominent British politician Leo Amery, became an expatriate in the 1930s, moving to France...
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    Hoare – Secretary of State for Air Lord Novar – Secretary for Scotland Leo Amery – First Lord of the Admiralty Philip Lloyd-Greame – President of the Board...
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    Sir Eric Geddes Walter Long The Viscount Lee of Fareham Wood Anderson Leo Amery The Viscount Chelmsford The Viscount Bridgeman A. V. Alexander Sir Austen...
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    June 1930 Monarch George V Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Preceded by Leo Amery Succeeded by James Henry Thomas Secretary of State for the Colonies In...
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  • represented by Leo Amery, an "expert on the conditions of the army", and Carlyon Bellairs, a naval officer. The club's membership included: Leo Amery, statesman...
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  • was a niece of Muriel Emily Spencer Ashley, Lady Mount Temple and of Leo Amery. Delevigne had two brothers, David Henry Hamar Greenwood, 2nd Viscount...
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    Commons Chamber that attacked the committee's findings. On 13 June 1934, Leo Amery spoke, arguing that Churchill's true aim was to bring down the government...
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    Volume 2. London: Cassell & Co. OCLC 15982. Amery, Leo (1980). Barnes, John; Nicholson, David (eds.). The Leo Amery Diaries Volume 1 1896–1929. London: Hutchinson...
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