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Leopold Charles Maurice [1] Stennett Amery CH (22 November 1873 – 16 September 1955), also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement.
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L.S. Amery (born Nov. 22, 1873, Gorakhpur, India—died Sept. 16, 1955, London, Eng.) was a British politician who was a persistent advocate of imperial preference and tariff reform and did much for colonial territories.
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Jun 24, 2019 · Learn about the life and career of Leopold Amery, a prominent Conservative politician and a close associate of Winston Churchill. Discover how they met, clashed, and cooperated on various issues, from South Africa to India to World War II.
Dec 19, 2022 · This paper proposes to take seriously the dialectic between internationalist and regionalist visions of world order by charting the half-century political career of British imperialist and statesman Leopold Amery: from his lifelong campaign for British imperial economic union organized around preferential tariffs, through to his fervent critique...
Apr 1, 2018 · Leo Amery (1873–1955) was a lifelong friend and political rival of Winston Churchill, who served as his Secretary of State for India in 1940. His diaries, covering his life from 1945 to 1955, provide insights into Churchill's post-war plans, views, and activities.
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Max Beloff | Published in History Today Volume 39 Issue 1 January 1989. On the eve of his seventieth birthday, Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and for Burma in Winston Churchill's wartime government, examined himself in his diary:
Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, also known as L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative politician and journalist. During his career, he was known for his interest in military preparedness, British India and the British Empire and for his opposition to appeasement.
