Labour wins power; Snowden replaces Churchill
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- Lords of Finance whole source · open book
In June 1929, Britain went to the polls. After four years of high unemployment under Conservative rule, the Tories were voted out of office and a minority Labor government took power. Churchill was replaced at the Exchequer by Philip Snowden, a long and bitter opponent of France and French policy on reparations.
chapter: 16. INTO THE VORTEX - 1928-29