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| | Balfour Declaration 1926 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The report should not be confused with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 by which the British foreign minister favoured a Jewish national home in Palestine. | | | It is named, like the earlier document, after the Earl of Balfour (Arthur James Balfour, 1848-1930), Lord President of the Council in the British government and chairman of the Conference's inter-Imperial relations committee. | | | It also recommended that the Governor-General, the representative of the King, who acted for the crown as head of state in each Dominion, should no longer serve automatically also as the representative of the British government in diplomatic relations between the two countries. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_1926
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| | Arthur James, First Earl of Balfour (1848-1930) |
| | The Balfour Declaration soon became the recognized standard of Zionist ideals for Palestine, and it likewise was the basis of the organization of the Jewish Agency, composed of Zionists and non-Zionists, who met at Zurich, Switzerland, in the summer of l929, to form a cooperative body to advance the Jewish homeland ideal. | | | The Declaration was approved on April 24th, 1920, at the Allies’ Conference at San Remo and incorporated in the Mandate on Palestine conferred upon Britain by the League of Nations on July 24th, 1922. | | | Arthur James Balfour was elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in l902, successor to Prime Minister Salisbury, his uncle. |
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| | Jew Watch - References - The Balfour Declaration |
| | The Balfour Declaration was endorsed by the Allied powers and included in the British mandate over Palestine, which was approved by the League of Nations... | | | At the core of the Declaration was the unusual relationship between the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour and an active Zionist scientist named Chaim Weizmann, who later became the president of the World Zionist Organization and the first president of the revived state of Israel. | | | Wilson and his State department apparently were never privy to the Balfour Letter and the other deals being implemented by his own U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brandeis. |
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| | Documenting Democracy |
| | Balfour was 78 when he chaired the Committee established at the 1926 Imperial Conference to report on Inter-Imperial Relations, and died in 1930, the year before the Statute of Westminster became law. | | | Arthur Balfour was a nephew of British statesman Lord Robert Cecil and his own career in the British Foreign Office is said to have sparked the saying 'Bob's your Uncle!'. | | | British Foreign Minister during World War I, he was a member of the British delegation at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and was made Earl of Balfour in 1922. |
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| | Given the nature of British constitutional law, the decisions of the Imperial Conferences in 1926 and 1930 regarding intra-imperial constitutional relations had to be enacted in legislation. | | | At the 1926 Imperial Conference the intra-imperial relationship raised by Hertzog was referred to a committee chaired by Lord Balfour. | | | Rebellious movements amongst them against the Dutch and British administrations, resulted in the Patriotic movement, the declaration of republics in Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet (Elphick and Giliomee 1979: 198-203, 338-343), the Great Trek and consequently the republics of the Orange Free State, Natal and the Transvaal. |
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| | 19 November 1926 - The Balfour Declaration is accepted |
| | This Declaration was named after Lord Aurthur Balfour a nephew to the British statesman Lord Robert Cecil. | | | 19 November 1926 - The Balfour Declaration is accepted | | | This finally gave political and diplomatic independence to South Africa and other dominions. |
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| | Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The second, lesser-known, Balfour Declaration of 1926, recognized the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states. | | | The letter stated that the British government "view[ed] with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". | | | The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman and former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. |
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| | 1917 - The British Foreign Secretary approved the Balfour Declaration for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." |
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| | 1998/lloyd 2 |
| | The changing relationship and loosening of the apron strings were marked in constitutional terms by decisions and declarations of the imperial conferences. | | | Hall, H. Duncan, ‘The genesis of the Balfour declaration of 1926', Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, vol. | | | In the ILO the dominions followed wholly independent policies in respect of conventions and Canada was elected to a seat on the governing body. |
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| | Politics of Canada |
| | The Parti Quebecois government declared that a resulting vote of 50% plus 1 (person) in favor would be a victory. | | | For the federal government this demand for an enormous shift in power to a province done under a threat of a possible unilateral declaration of independence, was cause for great alarm. | | | The prime minister alone may ask the governor general to dissolve parliament and call new elections at any time during that period; that request was also refused only once, during the minority government of 1926. |
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| | Paul Bullen: Afrikaner Ethnicism |
| | Hertzog believed that the two languages had achieved equality and that as of the Balfour Declaration (1926), the receiving of dominion status with the Statute of Westminster (1931), and the Status of the Union Act (1934), South Africa was a fully sovereign nation. | | | South Africa was declared a republic following a referendum of whites and soon thereafter left the Commonwealth, preempting probable expulsion instigated by hostile Third World members and Canada. | | | India, which also had become a republic but had remained within the Commonwealth, was particularly critical of South Africa’s treatment of its Indian population (located mainly in Natal, originally brought there to work on sugar plantations). |
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| | NEXUS: Cecil Rhodes & Secret Societies-3 |
| | If the first Balfour Declaration can be said to have led to the creation of one state, the second such declaration bearing that name effectively marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire, converting it into a Commonwealth based on the free association of its member states. | | | Another influence on the Kindergarten was Frederick Scott Oliver (1864–1934), an American businessman, aspiring politician and author of Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on American Union (1906)90—a book hailed by leading Round Table members Leo Amery and Lionel Curtis as "the Bible" and "great inspiration" of their movement. | | | The dominions (Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) decisively rejected the model of imperial federation, in particular the calls for a constitutional conference that had arisen at the 1917 conference. |
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| | Federal Parliament's Changing Role in Treaty Making and External Affairs (Research Paper 15 1999-2000) |
| | Although the prerogative to declare war was recognised as being held by the King, Justice Isaacs noted in Farey v Burvett(157) that the executive power in section 61 of the Constitution includes the royal war prerogative. | | | An Order in Council was then issued authorising the Prime Minister to petition the King to declare a state of war between Canada and Germany from 10 September. | | | In South Africa, after a motion in favour of neutrality failed in the Parliament, the Governor-GeneralGovernor-General issued a proclamation on 6 September declaring a state of war between the Union of South Africa and Germany.(163) |
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| | No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to a Dominion as part of the law of that Dominion, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that that Dominion has requested, and consented to, the enactment thereof. | | | The latter part of this period coincided with the time at which other nations, including the United Kingdom, began to recognize Canada as an independent political entity on the international stage, this last state of affairs eventually confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Patriation and Secession References. | | | It would have been theoretically possible, especially after the mid-century termination of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council confirmed the domestic monopoly on constitutional development, for Canadian courts to interpret the Canadian amending formula in terms even more amenable to the facts of Canada's international status. |
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| | The Federal government had no need to adopt, as they were not bound by the Laws of England [since 1920], unless they chose to be so bound. | | | 1926 Balfour Declaration; equal status with Britain confirmed. | | | King George V declares war on behalf of Australia.(see declaration of war 3 Sept. 1939) |
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| | Quebec's Constitutional Veto: The Legal and Historical Context (BP295e) |
| | The Party’s 1985 policy statement, Mastering Our Future, declared that a veto on constitutional matters was "a right which Quebec has exercised in the past." In the strictest terms, this is true; however, Quebec had only exercised this right within the context of the need for unanimity among all the provinces. | | | Writing at about the same time, Gil Rémillard stated that, although it was not recognized in the Constitution, Quebec had held a veto that existed within a political dimension. | | | ABLE OF Throughout the first half century of Confederation, the issue of a veto on constitutional amendments was a moot point because legal control over amendments to the Constitution Act, 1867 lay with the Parliament of Great Britain. |
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| | ipedia.com: British Empire Article |
| | Britain's declaration of hostilities against Germany in September 1939 did not commit the Dominions, other than Australia, which had not yet legally adopted the Statute of Westminster. | | | Although the white-dominated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ended in the independence of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) and Zambia (the former Northern Rhodesia) in 1964, Southern Rhodesia's white minority (a self-governing colony since 1923) declared independence rather than submit to African government. | | | Although the Dominions had had no formal voice in declaring war in 1914, each was included separately among the signatories of the 1919 peace Treaty of Versailles, which had been negotiated by a British-led united Empire delegation. |
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| | This 'Balfour Declaration' issued by that conference of UK and Dominion Ministers, said: | | | That role of Governor-General was not more precisely defined but it followed that the holder of that office no longer served as the representative and custodian of United Kingdom interests; these became the concern of a High Commissioner. | | | At the 1930 Imperial conference it was declared that the appointment of a Governor-General was a matter to be settled between the monarch and the dominion government. |
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| | The History Place - This Month in History |
| | It declared the U.S. "...to be free, sovereign and independent states..." and that the British Crown "...relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof." | | | He helped bring about the British government's Balfour Declaration, which called for the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine. | | | - A state of emergency was declared in Britain after power workers and coal miners began work slowdowns. |
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| | UK correspondence with Palestine Arab Delegation and Zionist Organization/British policy in Palestine: "Churchill White Paper" - UK documentation Cmd. | | | Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the LoN/Balfour Declaration text |
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| | This Week In History 13 November - 19 November |
| | 17 November1995 - Algeria's military-backed leader Liamine Zeroual is declared winner of the November 16 presidential election. | | | 15 November1942 - World War II: North Africa: Allied victory declared at El Alamain. | | | 15 November1983 - The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution declaring that the constitutional proposals are contrary to the principles of the UN Charter and further entrench apartheid, and that the results of the referendum on 2 November 1983, endorsed by an exclusively white electorate, are of no validity whatsoever. |
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| | Special Collections |
| | In 1927 the Governor General ceased to be the representative of the British Government. | | | First treaty signed by Canada was the Halibut Treaty with the U.S. Next, the Locarno Treaty 1925, that specified that the Dominions were not necessarily involved with all terms. | | | Especially impressed this on the U.S.A. Declaration of war in 1939, a politically important move. |
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| | Australian Parliamentary Library - 1995-96 Research Paper 31 |
| | Rather, they would be more likely to see an Australian Head of State as a natural, evolutionary step for the Commonwealth - in keeping with the spirit of the Balfour Declaration of 1926, the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and the Australia Act of 1986. | | | After the Glorious Revolution in 1688, maintaining the monarchy in Britain was one way of concealing the steady democratisation of the English constitution - as Lord Balfour admitted in his introduction to Walter Bagehot's English Constitution, published in 1867: | | | Yet it would be unlikely that men such as Parkes and Deakin would agree that the British monarch should continue to act as Australia's Head of State into the twenty-first century. |
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| | Balfour Declaration 1926 |
| | Connected with the question last mentioned, was that of adherence of the United States of America to the Protocol establishing the Permanent Court of International Justice. | | | The special conditions upon which the United States desired to become a party to the Protocol had been discussed at a special Conference held in Geneva in September, 1926, to which all the Governments represented at the Imperial Conference had sent representatives. | | | We were appointed at the meeting of the Imperial Conference on the 25 th October, 1926, to investigate all the questions on the Agenda affecting Inter-Imperial Relations. |
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| | Everybody knew that that had been the legal and constitutional position in 1914, and the Balfour Declaration of 1926 had passed over the question of neutrality in war in silence. | | | In an earlier lecture, in the same series, Sir Robert had referred to the announcement made in the Canadian Parliament on the 10th of May, 1920, while he was still Prime Minister, that an arrangement had been concluded between the British and Canadian Governments to provide for a Canadian Minister Plenipotentiary in Washington. | | | But the general opinion was that while in one sense the Conference had done nothing beyond clearly stating the stage in the evolution of the Commonwealth which we all agreed had been attained, it was not merely a milestone but a signpost in that evolution. |
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| | Governor General of South Africa |
| | This design for the flags of the Governors-General followed the Balfour Declaration of 1926 which reflected the move towards greater self-determination and sovereignty and defined in general terms the constitutional relationship between Great Britain and the self-governing dominions. | | | Perhaps on the 1st January 1932, after the British Parliament had given the Balfour Declaration legal standing by enacting the Statute of Westminster on 12th December 1931. | | | It is usually said that they were intended to show that, following the Balfour Declaration of 1926, Governor-Generals no longer represented the British Government, but had become representatives of the British monarch. |
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| | Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 123 (Official Version) |
| | Since the 1926 Balfour Declaration, which made the dominions equal in status among themselves and vis-à-vis Great Britain, and since the Statute of Westminster which confirmed this in 1931, Canada has been recognized as a sovereign country. | | | Recognition of Canada's sovereignty was completed when the Parliament of the United Kingdom, at Canada's request, enacted the Canada Act 1982, stating that no act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the Constitution Act, 1982 came into force shall extend to Canada as part of its law. | | | Moreover, it does not reflect the positive evolution of the Acadian community since the sad events that occurred almost 250 years ago. |
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| | It was not until the Balfour Declaration of 1926 that Britain recognized that the Dominions had separate and equal status under the British Crown. | | | Over a century later the French finally conceded, as a result of what we call the French and Indian War, but which Canadians refer to as the Seven Years' War, and were removed from all of North America save for St. | | | What with all that war, it is worth noting that Canada has long been a highly militaristic society, even more so than the US. |
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| | New Zealand-born Prime Minister Gordon Coates, who led the delegation to the 1926 Imperial Conference, thought the Balfour Declaration a “rotten formula” that would weaken the ties of the Empire. | | | Equality of status was enshrined in the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and given legislative recognition in the United Kingdom Statute of Westminster 1931. | | | For example, although the 1926 Conference also confirmed that dominions could nominate their own Governors-General, New Zealand clung for some time to the old system whereby the British Prime Minister drew up a short list, ran it past the monarch for approval and then asked the New Zealand Prime Minister to choose. |
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| | Ceylon - United Kingdom Defence Agreement, 1948 |
| | The principles of this Agreement were negotiated in July 1947 after the Government of the United Kingdom had agreed to confer Dominion Status, though the draft was not available until the new Ceylon Cabinet was in office in October 1947, when it was approved. | | | The first paragraph of the preamble contains a slight modification of the phrase 'fully responsible status' which had been approved by the United Kingdom Cabinet; but it goes on summarize the Balfour Declaration of 1926 in which Dominion Status had been defined. | | | That is, it does its best to say that that the status is Dominion Status without actually using those words. |
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| | Gandhi and the Hindu-dominated Congress push the "Quit India" campaign | | | The Viceroy declares India to be at war in 1939 | | | Simon's report and Viceroy Irwin's declaration in the late 1920s |
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| | Re: Canadian Independence -- British Empire |
| | The Balfour Declaration of 1926 stated that Britain and the Dominions were 'autonomous communities within the British Empire, not subordinate one to another in their domestic or external affairs, free and equal as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations'. | | | >The Balfour Declaration of 1926 stated that Britain >and the Dominions were 'autonomous communities within >the British Empire, not subordinate one to another in >their domestic or external affairs, free and equal as >members of the British Commonwealth of Nations'. | | | This definition was put into effect by the passage of the Statute of Westminster on December 11, 1931. |
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| | South Africa on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The South African War (Boer War; 1899-1902) was won by the British. | | | In 1896, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State formed an alliance, and in 1899 they declared war on Great Britain. |
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| | New Zealand and the First World War - Overview - NZHistory.net.nz |
| | It culminated in the Balfour Declaration of 1926, which established the equal status of Britain and its self-governing Dominions, and the Statute of Westminster of 1931, which embodied the principle in law. | | | As part of the British Empire, New Zealand was formally involved in the First World War (also often referred to as the Great War) by King George V's declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914. | | | After the war, the process continued with the Dominions signing the Treaty of Versailles and becoming members of the League of Nations in their own right. |
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| | Bitter Anniversary of Balfour Declaration |
| | But, in order to realize his dream, he was corresponding with the British king, members of Freemason organizations, and British lords until the very last days of his life. | | | Herzl died in 1926 and did not have the chance to see the establishment of the Zionist regime. | | | The declaration and the following developments resulted in the establishment of the first Zionist government on May 15, 1948, a usurper regime that has started wars and caused bloodshed and chaos in the Middle East region ever since. |
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| | Learn more about British Empire in the online encyclopedia. |
| | The 1920s saw a rapid transformation of the status of the self-governing territories, leading to the 1926 Balfour Declaration and the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which provided formal equality of the Dominions with Britain, which is seen as the beginning of the British Commonwealth. | | | Nationalist sentiment grew in both old and new Imperial territories. |
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| | The formal or legal or constitutional role is, since Balfour, very close to that of the Sovereign in Britain. | | | But in addition it is clear that the local representative of the head of state has purposes other than simply being her representative. | | | The Balfour Declaration in 1926 included an explicit statement that the Governor-General is the representative of the Crown, with powers analogous to those of the Sovereign in Britain. |
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| | Zangwill, Israel (1864 - 1926) |
| | Following the securing of the Balfour declaration, the ITO fell into decline and by 1925 it was officially dissolved. | | | Zangwill died in 1926 in Preston, North England. | | | Zangwill supported Zionist efforts in Eretz-Israel calling for a radical approach both as regards the demand for the early establishment of a Jewish State and the solution of the Arab question. |
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| | Monarchy in Canada - Psychology Central |
| | Princess Margriet was born in Ottawa at the Civic Hospital, where the delivery room was temporarily declared Dutch soil to ensure that the Princess was born in the Netherlands. | | | The Balfour Declaration of 1926 provides the dominions with the right to be considered equal to Britain rather than subordinate; an agreement that had the result of, in theory, a shared Crown that operates independently in each realm rather than a unitary British Crown under which all the dominions were subordinate. | | | The monarchy thus ceased to be an exclusively British institution, although it has often been called British since this time (in both legal and common language) for historical, legal, and for reasons of convenience. |
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| | Judaism 101 - Rabbi Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG |
| | He wrote that it is not surprising that a Jew willingly gives his life to sanctify G-d’s name because it is natural that when one is confronted with an opposite force, his essence comes to the fore (Va’eschanan). | | | He also believed that in order for a Rav to be a true leader of his community, he needed to be fluent in the language of the land. | | | Reb Meir Simcha was a strong supporter of the settlement of Eretz Yisrael and greeted the Balfour Declaration with enthusiasm. |
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| | The National party won the 1948 elections, partly by criticizing the more liberal policy toward nonwhites. | | | The British recognition of South Africa independence (through the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster of 1931) took South Africa off the gold standard, thus raising the price of gold and simulating the gold-mining industry and the economy in general. | | | Under the Union’s constitution, power was centralized; the Dutch language (and in 1925 Afrikaans) was given equal status with English. |
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| | Austria declared war on France and allied Itself with Russia. | | | Initially, Lord Rothschild was part of the inner group of Rhode’s secret society, but was replaced by his son-in-law Lord Rosebury who wasn’t as conspicuous. | | | A secondary circle of "potential members of the Circle of Initiates" consisted of the Jew Lord Balfour, Sir Harry Johnson, Lord Rothschild, Lord Grey and others. |
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| | Dickinson Timeline 1901-1950 |
| | The Balfour Declaration backed a Jewish homeland after the war (Nov. 2) | | | Germany invaded Poland (Sep. 1); France and Britain declared war and the Second World War was under way. | | | The Korean War began (June 25) and two days later the United Nations officially declared war on North Korea. |
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| | - The General Strike (May 4-12, 1926): The continuing conflict over wage cuts and longer hours in the mining industry led to a prolonged General Strike, which was supported almost 100% by the TUC (Trades Unions Congress) and brought industry and transportation in Britain to a standstill. | | | The radio, which was then called the ‘wireless’, established itself as one of the most effective mass media of information, entertainment and propaganda, a function which was first demonstrated in the BBC’s role during the 1926 General Strike, which gave rise to the myth of the BBC’s ‘impartiality’. | | | In 1922 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), under its director, John Reith, started its service of broadcasting. |
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