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The Rise of Fascism | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. The Rise of Fascism. In 1922 Benito Mussolini seized power in Rome and introduced the world to fascism, the latest in brutally authoritarian, racist, anti-socialist dictatorships. Italian Fascism violently suppressed working-class organisations. At home and a lusted after imperialist expansion abroad. Perceived ‘subversives’ were silenced through state censorship. Hitler starte...
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Peace in Our Time | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. Peace in Our Time. 8220;I have here a piece of paper…”. 8220;A Far Away Country”. Chamberlain returned to Heston Airport (today Heathrow) waving his famous ‘peace treaty’. 8220;This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine”. Attacks against Jews increase. Germans enter the Sudetenland.
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Spring 1938 | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. Labour shows it’s strength. The Bridgwater of winter 1937-1938 was wracked by a serious typhoid outbreak that had spread to the area from nearby Highbridge and Hunstpill. On February 16th, addressing a Labour meeting in Puriton chaired by party stalwart Walt Farthing, Loveys laid in to the National Government. Baldwin’s coalition was. But Loveys wasn’t restricted to criti...
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The Popular Front | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. One strategy for fighting fascism was the formation of ‘Popular Front’ Governments. This involved alliances of ‘Progressive’ parties from the left and centre of the political spectrum, like the one formed in France in 1934 by of Socialists, Communists and Radicals. The Spanish Civil War. The debate on the left. When, in July 1936, the Spanish Civil War. Broke out , it was clear...
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Autumn 1938 | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. The Conservatives were the first to announce their candidate – Patrick Gerald Heathcoat Amory of Tiverton had beaten Captain Guy Fanshawe of South Petherton for selection, and announced 64 meetings with the full backing of Colonel ETR Wickham,Taunton’s sitting Tory MP. 8211; only 26 said,. The Liberal agent now signed up to the Bartlett campaign – announced in response,. There ...
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The 1930s | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. Germany in the 1930’s. The “Inter-War Years”. The 1930s saw a massive failure of global capitalism, bringing stock market collapse, the Great Depression and, as a result, the emergence of extreme political alternatives that polarised societies. The First World War. The rest of the world seemed incapable of doing anything other than watching from the sidelines. The harsh pos...
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Vernon Bartlett | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. The Candidate – Vernon Bartlett. With the Munich Crisis, Richard Acland had the moment he had been waiting for. A perfectly-timed by-election in Bridgwater would give him the chance to strike a high-profile blow for left-wing unity, and against Appeasement. But he was lacking one last, crucial ingredient – a viable candidate. And, in 1938, accosted in London by a maverick Somer...
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1938 Crisis | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. German Expansion by 1938. After Germanys defeat in World War I, her territories were confiscated by the treaty of Versailles. In the following decades, through a combination of political bluff and military sabre-rattling, these areas were restored to it one by one while the West stood by. Fuhrer Command We Will Follow! Back in Berlin Hitler stepped up the pressure and turned up...
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Ind Progs | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. In an impressive show of local solidarity, Bridgwater’s progressives more or less united behind Bartlett, standing as an Independent Progressive. However, the fixer-in-chief and most influential local Liberal was undergoing a dramatic conversion, rapidly losing his Liberalism in favour of an almost religious devotion to socialism and collect security. And happily admitted engin...
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1929 | Vernon Bartlett
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And the Bridgwater by-election of 1938. The Rise of Fascism. Which Side Are You On? Peace in Our Time. World Turned Upside Down. In Britain, the 1930s had really kicked off in 1929. The year’s election set the tone for the previous ten, and with global financial meltdown at the forefront of the people’s minds. it seemed to many that capitalism was on the way out. With a background of rising unemployment and the class conflict. The Liberals campaigned on the theme ‘. We can conquer unemployment’. With Tor...
