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,Old Concerns: India and Imperial Affairs, 1931–5,al contribution to the long debate on India, which was seen in the Joint Select Committee on Indian constitutional reform, and during the debates on the government of India Bill, conducted both inside and outside parliament. A consideration of the debate over Newfoundland also contributes to an unde

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,New Problems: Attlee and Defence and Foreign Policy, 1931–5,ign policy position in 1931, their stance on disarmament and collective security, their reaction to the rise of Hitler, and the internal debates with the pacifists and the Left. They also had to develop responses to the 1935 Defence White Paper, military affairs, the Peace Ballot and the rising cris

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,Attlee and the International Crises, 1935–40,rnational crises, in which the threat of war grew ever closer. There were crises in Abyssinia, Spain and the Rhineland. The difficult question of major rearmament, and further crises in the Far East and Austria, had to be faced. The party also had to consider Chamberlain’s appeasement policy and ult

盟軍

,Imperial and Home Affairs, 1935–40,the normal business of the government, and of the Opposition, had to continue. After the 1935 election Attlee was still involved in the imperial questions of the day, the economic issues the party had to resolve, the modest successes the PLP enjoyed and the controversies in which the party were invo

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,New Problems: Attlee and Defence and Foreign Policy, 1931–5, Attlee was slow to react to the rise of Hitler. But it is here argued that Labour changed its foreign policy stance significantly in 1934, but obscured the fact for political reasons. It is also shown that, despite accusations to the contrary Attlee was at times prepared to give a strong lead in the foreign policy debate.