sir edward grey and lord curzon

7/29/2019 Sir Edward Grey and Lord Curzon

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Keir HardieSelf-educated miner - Symbolizes the party of protest Had a long-termnfluence upon working-class history architect of social and politicalrevolution still remains an undisputed hero for the British Labour Movt.Some treated him as extremist because of his positions towards the colonies(Indian self-government) and attacks on the Royal family his advocacy ofterrifying doctrines as socialism, feminism, pacifism and colonial freedomAgainst the triple entente with Tsarist Russia (lEntente cordiale) and was

excluded from Buckingham Palace garden parties by Edward VIIHe was secretary of Miners unions (Lanarkshire coalfields)He was against Lib-Labbism and campaigned for the Labour partyndependence since 1893Alliance between trade unions and socialist societies and created the LabourParty CommitteeEffective voice on unemployment and intensive state intervention. Deeplynfluenced by Eliot and DickensFounded newspapers to give the Labour party a wider audience

Maintained contact with labour organizations of other countries (EdouardVaillant)Some people like Ramsay MacDonald found it difficult to work withHe seemed ignorant of any element of economics

Ramsay Macdonald

The Webbsntellectuals that inspired revolution in England They were members of the

Fabian Society and strongholds of New Statesman and LSECampaigned for industrial relations and against colonial development but NOTagainst the Boer WarThey were initially excluded from the formation of the Labour Party in 1900that they oppsedThis was the creation of miners (unlettered and self-educated Keir Hardie asopposed to the Webbs as being intellectuals and middle-class technocrats)They eventually joined the ILP in 1912 and made peace with the massTheir first achievement was the influence they had upon Arthur Balfour after

the transfer of elementary education to county councils this was a victory ofexperts over amateurs but failed to introduce a scheme of public welfare andstate regulation of labour market BUT were against huge state-run bureaucracyTHEREFORE, their socialism was judged rather scientificBecame more prominent in the aftermath of WW I and were participatingactively in the LP debates they even campaigned for the nationalisation ofndustriesn 1922, Sidney Webb entered parliament as MP for Durham served in Labourcabinets and then entered the House of Lords

The Webbs did not collaborate with trade unions Sidney voted for a cut inunemployment benefit in 1931 and later against wage increaseThey criticized the Soviet Union and were themselves considered as minorroyalty by Russian authorities


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Beatrice died in 1943 and Sydney in 1947 and there is a plaque to theirmemory in Westminster Abbey, the shrine of capitalist establishmentAccording to Shaw : they were unsocial socialistsHobsbawm they embodied the nouvelle couche sociale of the administrators,bureaucrats or scientifically trained managersBut they contributed extensively to the understanding of welfare policy, labourmarket, industrial relations, education and local governmentThey ignored that socialism is about people


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Sir Edward GreyHe was brought up by his grandfather when his father died and went to Oxfordbut was an idolent student and got even more idle. His father died and hebecame Sir Edward Grey and inherited 2,000 acres (8.1km)He first worked as an unpaid assistant private secretary to Hugh Childers, theChancellor of the ExchequerHe was a Liberal Party candidate for Berwick upon Tweed and became MP at23 (the youngest with a maj. of 442 votes) in 1892

The Liberal Party won a landslide victory in 1906 and when Campbell-Bannerman stepped down as PM in 1907, Grey was one of the leadingcandidates to succeed him. But the post went eventually to Asquith and Greycontinued as Foreign Secn 1905, he was a German Ambassador and supported the idea of anagreement with Russia un like the Conservatives who saw Russia as a potentialthreat to the empire his intention was to involve Russiain European politics tomaintain the balance of power in Europe.Grey was in favour of the Triple Entente (Entente cordiale) which was signed in

1904 between the UK, France and Russia.He was criticized by the Radicals within his own party the lamps are goingout all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our timeHe maintained his position as For. Sect. when the Cons. formed the coalitiongovernment in May 1915When David Lloyd George became PM, Grey went into the opposition but thenmoved to the House of Lords in July 1916 and became the Viscount Grey ofFallodon in NorthumberlandForeign Secretary from 1905 to 1916 then Ambassador to the US between

1919 and 1920.Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords between 1923 and 1924From 1928 to 1933 he was Chancellor of the Univ. Of OxfordLord CurzonHe was educated at Eton Collegeand Balliol College, Oxfordn his early political career, he was Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Salisburyn 1886, he entered parliament as MP for South West Lancashire- He wasbrilliant and eloquent and his first speech was an attack on Home Rule andrish nationalism his arrogance caused friction between him & peers - He was

Under-Secretary of State for India and then Under-Secretary for Foreign AffairsHe travelled a lot and published several books and was fascinated by orientalife and geographyHis travels had a political purpose and aimed at studying the impact of theproblems of Asia on British IndiaHe was appointed Viceroy of India and is still criticized for having done little tofight the Indian famine which killed nearly 9 million people.He opposed some of the proposals of the Liberal government and also headedthe Anti-Suffrage League In 1907, he was elected Chancellor of Oxford

The Great Game, a term used for the strategic rivalry between theBritish and the Russian empiresThis shaped Curzons geopolitical strategy and made him take an activenterest in military matters and took a lead role in strengthening thesupremacy of the British Empire in the East (Iraq, Kuwait)
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He was appointed foreign secretary in 1919Curzon and Lloyd George never agreed and did not like each other. Curzonexuded aristocratic nature but when it came to governmental policy, theytended to agree with each otherCurzon was about to become PM when Andrew Bonar resigned in May 1923 butthis was considered as being inappropriate for the PM to be a member of theHouse of Lords a post held eventually by Stanley Baldwin following a decisionby King George V

Curzon travelled by train to London and was not expecting this news. When hewas told the truth, he burst into tearsHe remained Foreign Secretary under Baldwin until 1924 and his role inshaping British foreign policy as instrumental

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