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Loading... Politics Made Plainby T. L. Horabin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Published in October, 1944, during the last year of the Second World War, this book is a fierce attack on the Conservative Party; the author, from 1939, was a Radical Liberal (i.e., on the left wing of that small party), and fought his 1939 election to parliament in opposition to Chamberlain's appeasement policy. If you read a lot of the "Left Book Club" books of the 1930s, a lot of the attacks on Tory policy, foreign and domestic, are going to be familiar. Monopoly power, and a desire to turn Germany against Russia (see "Light on Moscow" for further details in that regard by a contemporary M.P. of Horabin). This particular book is something of a campaign document, in that Horabin argues for a conclusive turning out of the Tory party, so that the party would never again raise its head. To a certain extent, that did happen, with Churchill going down to a ringing defeat in the 1945 election. However, for various reasons, Horabin's project of Anglo-Soviet cooperation in post-war Europe did not come to pass. Horabin eventually switched to Labour, though his effectiveness, and his life, was cut short owing to injuries suffered in a plane crash. No really new ground tread here, as I say: all familiar stuff to Left Book Club readers. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesPenguin Special (S154)
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)942.083History and Geography Europe England and Wales England 1837- George V 1910-36LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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