Book Chapter

PART I. HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. SUMMARY: CHAPTER I. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS (January–April)

1949

Overview

Tension relaxed (pg. 1-2). official optimism and exhortations (pg. 2-4). Parliamentary debates (pg. 4-9). the Berlin airlift (pg. 9). the Iron Curtain countries (pg. 9-11). debate on Defence (pg. 11-12). European Assembly (pg. 12). Atlantic Pact (pg. 12-13). Palestine truce (pg. 13-14). Commonwealth affairs (pg. 14-15). foreign trade (pg. 15-17). Mr. Mayhew at Lake Success (pg. 17-18). industrial relations (pg. 18). the Budget (pg. 18-24).

• Subject: Acland, Sir Richard / Agricultural Marketing Bill / Agricultural Wages Board / AIR Estimates / Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V / Argentina / Army Estimates / Assheton, Mr. Ralph / Attlee, RT. HON. Clement R / Baldwin, Lord / Belcher, Mr. John / Benson, Mr. G., M.P / Berlin, Germany / Bevan, Rt Hon. Aneurin, M.P. (U.K.) / Bevin, Rt. Hon. Ernest, M.P / Bevins, Mr. J. R / Blenkinsop, Mr. A., M.P / Brooke, Mr. Henry / Brown, Mr. G. A., M.P / Budget / Bulgaria / By-Elections / Canada / Carson, Hon. E., M.P / Chamberlain, Mr. Ronald, M.P / Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston S / Cinema / Coal industry / Cominform, The / Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference / Cripps, RT. HON. SIR STAFFORD / Crossman, Mr. R. H. S / Czechoslovakia / Davies, Mr. Clement / Defence, Estimates / Eden, Rt Hon. Sir Anthony / Eden, Rt. Hon. Anthony / Eden, Rt. Hon. Anthony, M.P / Edwards, Rt. Hon. Ness, M.P / Erroll, Mr. F. J., M.P / Festival of Britain / Follick, Mr. M., M.P / Fyfe, Sir David Maxwell / Germany / Germany, Western Germany / Gibson, Mr. George / Granville, Mr. E., M.P / Greenhill, Mr. (Sofia Legation) / Harris, Sir Percy, M.P / Henderson, Lord / Henderson, Rt. Hon. Arthur / Herbert, Sir Alan / Hewitson, Captain Mark, M.P / Hoffman, Mr. Paul (U.S.A.) / Hollis, Mr. Christopher, M.P / Houghton, Mr. D., M.P / Hudson, Mr. James / Hughes, Mr. Emrys, M.P / Ireland, Republic of / Isaacs, Rt. Hon, G. A / Israel / Jebb, Sir Gladwyn / Jones, Rt. Hon. A. Creech / Laski, Professor H. J / Layton, Lord / Lipson, Mr. D. L., M.P / Mayhew, Mr. C. P., M.P / Mcgovern, Mr. J., M.P / Mcneil, Rt. Hon. Hector / Mindszenty, Cardinal (Hungary) / Morrison, Rt. Hon. Herbert / National Debt / Navy Estimates / Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal (India) / Newfoundland, Canada / Poland / Purchase tax / Shaw, Mr. Bernard / Stanley, Mr. Sydney / Stanley, Rt. Hon. Oliver / Strachey, Rt. Hon. E. J. St. Loe / Thorneycroft, Mr. Peter / Tomlinson, Rt. Hon. G / Tsarapkin, Mr (USSR) / Vansittart, Lord / WALKER-SMITH, Mr. D., M.P / Warby, Mr. W. N., M.P / Webb, Mr. Maurice, M.P / Wigg, Mr. G. E., M.P / Wildash, Captain / Wilson, Rt. Hon. J. Harold / Younger, Hon. Kenneth, M.P / Zilliacus, Mr. K., M.P