Book Chapter

ENGLISH HISTORY. SUMMARY: CHAPTER I.—THE DEFEAT OF ITALY

1941

Overview

The New Government “Executives” (pg. 1-2). Reasons for the Change (pg. 2). Defects in Government Control System (pg. 2). Advances in Production (pg. 2-3). Need of Fresh Supplies of Labour (pg. 3). Plan for Registration of Industry (pg. 3). Departure of Lord Halifax for America (pg. 3-4). Diminution of Air Raids (pg. 4-5). Compulsory Fire-watching (pg. 5). Effects of Shelter Life (pg. 5). R.A.F. Activity (pg. 5-6). Shipping Losses in January and February (pg. 6). Effect on Food Supplies (pg. 6). High Figure of Road Accidents (pg. 6-7). Suppression of Daily Worker (pg. 7). Protest in Parliament (pg. 7). War Damage Bill Passed (pg. 7-8). Modification of Household Means Test (pg. 8). Labour Party's Reception (pg. 8-9). New Vote of 600 million (pg. 9). Government Changes (pg. 9). House of Commons Disqualification Bill (pg. 9-10). Government's Reconstruction Plans (pg. 10). Public Schools Bill (pg. 10-11). Capture of Bardia (pg. 11). Of Tobruk (pg. 11). Of Benghazi (pg. 11). British Gains and Losses (pg. 11-12). British Advance in Eritrea (pg. 12). Rising in Abyssinia: Mr. Eden's Statement (pg. 12). German Air Attacks in Mediterranean (pg. 12-13). German Reinforcements in Africa (pg. 13). British Rights in Tangier (pg. 13). Government and Dock Labourers (pg. 13-14). Registration for Employment Order (pg. 14). Women's Eagerness (pg. 14-15). Government Scheme for Concentration of Production (pg. 15). Method of Concentration (pg. 15-16). Army and Civil Defence Services (pg. 16). Mr. Bevin and Compulsion of Workers (pg. 16). Labour and the “People's Convention” (pg. 16-17). B.B.C. Heresy Hunting (pg. 17). First Raid on Lofoten Islands (pg. 17). First Lord on Naval Position (pg. 17-18). Progress in Army Equipment (pg. 18-19). Work of the Air Forces (pg. 19). Militia Camp Affair (pg. 19). Prime Minister on Lease and Lend Bill (pg. 19-20). Mission of Sir A. Salter (pg. 20). British Advance in Somaliland (pg. 20). British Somaliland Recovered (pg. 20-21). Capture of Keren (pg. 21). Of Massawa (pg. 21). British Command of Mediterranean (pg. 21-22). Breach with Rumania (pg. 22). Mr. Eden in the Near East (pg. 22). Breach with Bulgaria (pg. 22-23). Appeals to Yugoslavia (pg. 23). Britain and the Yugoslav Revolution (pg. 23). Battle of Matapan (pg. 23-24). Sunday Opening of Music Halls (pg. 24). Submarine Menace Intensified (pg. 24). Air Raids in March (pg. 24-25). Progress in Food Production (pg. 25). Accounts for the Year (pg. 25). The Budget (pg. 25-27). “Combing-out” of Industry (pg. 27).

• Subject: Absenteeism / Abyssinia / Abyssinia, Campaign / AGRICULTURE / Agriculture, Labour / AIR Estimates / AIR raids / Air raids, enemy / Aircraft, Production / Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V / Anderson, Rt. Hon. Sir John / ANGLO-TURKISH relations / Army / Army, Equipment / Army, Estimates / Assheton, Mr. Ralph / Atlantic, Battle of the / Australia / Auxiliary Fire Services / Balkans, The / Bevan, Mr. Aneurin / Bevin, Rt. Hon. Ernest, M.P / Brand, Hon. R. H / British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) / Brown, Rt. Hon. Alfred Ernest / Budget / Bulgaria / Butler, Hon. R. A / Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S / Civil defence / Cripps, Sir Stafford / Cunningham, Admiral / Customs and Excise / Dill, Sir John / Eden, Rt. Hon. Anthony, M.P / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Excess Profits Tax / Food situation / Germany / Greece / Greenwood, Rt. Hon. Arthur / Haile Selassie, Emperor (Abyssinia) / Halifax, Lord / Horder, Lord / Hudson, Rt. Hon. R. S / Income tax / Italy / Johnston, Rt. Hon. Thomas / KASSALA / Kenya / Libya campaign / Lloyd, Lord / Lothian, Lord / Lyttelton, Captain Oliver / Macdonald, Rt. Hon. J. Ramsay / Malta / Mcgovern, Mr / Mediterranean warfare / Ministerial changes / Morrison, Rt. Hon. Herbert / Moyne, Lord / Navy Estimates / PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Mr / Portsmouth, United Kingdom / Public health / Reith, Lord / Roosevelt, President (U.S.A.) / Rumania / Salter, Sir Arthur / Sarajoglu, M. (Turkey) / Shelter conditions / Shipbuilding and Shipping / Shipping losses / Simon, Lord / Somaliland, British / Somervell, Sir D. B / Subsidies, Government / Turkey and Great Britain, relations with / Unemployment / war / WAR expenditure / Wavell, General Sir Archibald / Wilkinson, Miss Helen / Wood, Rt. Hon. Sir Kingsley / Woolton, Rt. Hon. Lord / Yugoslavia