Book Chapter

ENGLISH HISTORY. SUMMARY: CHAPTER II.—THE CONQUEST OF TUNISIA AND SICILY

1943

Overview

The Budget: Chancellor on External Costs (pg. 33-34). On Taxation and Borrowing (pg. 34). On Control of Prices (pg. 34-35). New Taxation (pg. 35). “Pay-as-you-earn” Income Tax Demand (pg. 35-36). Lord Cranborne on the Maintenance of Peace (pg. 36). Advance of Eighth Army (pg. 36). Allied Perimeter round Tunis and Bizerta (pg. 36-37). Enemy Convoy Intercepted (pg. 37). First Army's Progress (pg. 37-38). Capture of Tunis and Bizerta (pg. 38). Fruits of Victory (pg. 38). Mr. Attlee on the Victory (pg. 38-39). British Air Raids in April (pg. 39). Close of Burma Campaign (pg. 39). Mr. Churchill in Washington (pg. 39-40). New Planning Bill (pg. 40). Reopening of Theatre Royal, Bristol (pg. 40). The Food Situation (pg. 40-41). Chancellor of Exchequer on Financial Policy (pg. 41). Britain's Assistance to Refugees (pg. 41). Bermuda Conference Results (pg. 41-42). Increase in Widows' Pensions (pg. 42). New Vote of Credit: Canada's Gift (pg. 42). Home Secretary on Delegated Legislation (pg. 42-43). Union of Post Office Workers and T.U.C. (pg. 43). Conservative Party Conference (pg. 43). Government and Civil Aviation (pg. 43-44). Air Raids on Italy (pg. 44). British Air Raids in May (pg. 44-45). Capture of Pantelleria (pg. 45). Intensified Air Activity in June (pg. 45-46). Changes in Civil Defence Services (pg. 46). Defeat of U-boat Attack on Convoy (pg. 46). Improvement in Maritime Situation (pg. 46-47). Mr. Churchill on Anglo-American Co-operation (pg. 47). On Military Prospects (pg. 47-48). The King in North Africa (pg. 48). Labour Party Conference: the Electoral Truce (pg. 48). Party and Ministers (pg. 48-49). Relations with Communists (pg. 49). Trades Disputes Act (pg. 49). Vansittartism (pg. 49-50). Minister of Fuel on Coal Situation (pg. 50). His Optimism for the Future (pg. 50-51). New Foreign Service Bill (pg. 51). Pensions Appeal Tribunals Bill (pg. 51). Britain and U.N.R.R.A. (pg. 51-52). Mr. Hudson on Agricultural Output (pg. 52). Government and Electoral Machinery (pg. 52). Revision of Companies Act (pg. 52). Chancellor of Exchequer on Tax Evasion (pg. 52-53). R.A.F. Superiority over Luftwaffe (pg. 53). Local Authorities and Ribbon Development (pg. 53-54). Forestry Commission Report (pg. 54). Mr. Eden on Aid to China (pg. 54-55). Mr. Dingle Foot on the Economic Blockade of the Axis (pg. 55-56). Preparations for Invasion of Sicily (pg. 56). First Landings (pg. 56). British Advance (pg. 56-57). Installation of Amgot (pg. 57). First Air Raid on Rome (pg. 57). Further Allied Advance (pg. 57-58). New Plan for County of London (pg. 58). Education in the Colonies (pg. 58-59). Britain and American Merchant Shipping (pg. 59). War Pensions Changes (pg. 59-60). Debate in Commons (pg. 60). Emergency Powers Act Renewed (pg. 60). Liberal Party Conference (pg. 60-61). Commons and Decline in Population (pg. 61-62). Education White Paper (pg. 62). Report on School Certificate Examinations (pg. 62-63). Reception of Scheme in Commons (pg. 63). Report on War-time Housing (pg. 63-64). Electoral Reform Proposals (pg. 64). Workmen's Compensation Bill (pg. 64). Mr. Bevin on Need for Additional Labour (pg. 64). Premier on the Fall of Mussolini (pg. 64-65). His Offer to Italy (pg. 65). Members' Suspicions (pg. 65-66). Capture of Catania (pg. 66). Transference of American Ships to England (pg. 66). Bank Holiday Rush to Seaside (pg. 66). Raids on Hamburg (pg. 66-67).

• Subject: Agricultural output / AIR offensive, British and American / Air raids, enemy / Albert Hall / Alexander, General H. L. (U.S.A.) / Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V / Anderson, General / Anderson, Rt. Hon. Sir John / Asquith, Sir Cyril / Attlee, Rt. Hon. C. R / Badoglio, Marshal (Italy) / Baker, Mr. Noel / Beer duties / Bevin, Rt. Hon. Ernest / Birth rate / Brown, Rt. Hon. A. Ernest / Budget / Burma / Butler, Hon. R. A / Canada / Catteral, Mr. R / Cecil, Lord / China / Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S / Citrine, Sir Walter / Civil Aviation / Civil defence / Coal / Cohen, Mr. Justice / Communist Party / Cranborne, Lord / Crete / Czechoslovakia / Dalton, Rt. Hon. Hugh / DE Gaulle, General (France) / Dobbs, Mr. A. J / Eden, Rt Hon. Sir Anthony / Eden, Rt. Hon. Anthony, M.P / Eisenhower, Lt.-General Dwight D. (U.S.A.) / Excess Profits Tax / Food situation / Foot, Mr. Dingle / France / George VI, H.M. King / George, Major Gwilym Lloyd / Giraud, General Henri (France) / Greece / Greenwood, RT. HON. ARTHUR / Grenfell, Mr / Hudson, Rt. Hon. R. S / Italy / Jowitt, Sir William / LAW, Rt. Hon. Richard K / Mabane, Rt. Hon. W / Malta / Mediterranean situation / Messe, General (Italy) / Montgomery, General / Morrison, Rt. Hon. Herbert / Mussolini, Signor (Italy) / Purchase tax / Rommel, General (Germany) / Roosevelt, President (U.S.A.) / Salter, Sir A / Shipbuilding and Shipping / Shipping losses / Sicilian Campaign / Sinclair, Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald / Stanley, Colonel Rt. Hon. Oliver / Tunisia / Vansittart, Lord / WAR expenditure / Wilkinson, Miss Helen / Wood, Rt. HON. SIR H. Kingsley