There were disagreements about mining, both in the war cabinet and with the French government | Great offence will be given if all the others have it and this large, rich, beautiful island, the home of the cigar, is denied |
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He stated that the bill would "appeal to insular prejudice against foreigners, to racial prejudice against Jews, and to labour prejudice against competition" and expressed himself in favour of "the old tolerant and generous practice of free entry and asylum to which this country has so long adhered and from which it has so greatly gained" | "Starvation and exchange entitlements: a general approach and its application to the Great Bengal Famine" |
Clementine and daughter Mary had been at the count in , Churchill's new constituency in Essex, and had returned to Downing Street to meet him for lunch.
12To ensure funding for their reforms, Lloyd George and Churchill denounced 's policy of naval expansion, refusing to believe that war with Germany was inevitable | |
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Caretaker government: May 1945 to July 1945 Main article: With a general election looming there had been none for , and with the Labour ministers refusing to continue the wartime coalition, Churchill resigned as Prime Minister on 23 May 1945 | As First Lord, Churchill was one of the highest-profile ministers during the so-called "", when the only significant action by British forces was at sea |
During his early parliamentary career, he was often deliberately provocative and argumentative to an unusual degree; and his barbed rhetorical style earned him many enemies in parliament.
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