TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Popular conservatism and the culture of national government in inter-war Britain
A1  - Thomas, Geraint, 1983- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5466813
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 978-1-108-48312-4 sidottu
KW  - Conservative Party (Great Britain) : History : 20th century.
KW  - Conservatism : Great Britain : History : 20th century.
KW  - Great Britain : Politics and government : 1910-1936.
KW  - Great Britain : Politics and government : 1936-1945.
ER  -