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CHANCELLOR ECSTATIC AS ‘INDIA’S HORDES’ FORCED TO SELL GOLD [ 20 February 1932 ] Today in 1932, Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to his sister, happily acknowledged that ‘the astonishing gold mine we have discovered in India’s hordes has put us in clover.’ Please feel welcome to post comments below. …

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COLONIAL SECRETARY WARNS AGAINST ‘IMMORAL RELATIONS WITH NATIVE WOMEN’ [ 11 January 1909 ] On 11 January 1909 Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies, issued his ‘immoral relations’ memorandum. It cautioned all members of the Colonial Service of ‘the grave injury to good administration’ and ‘the disgrace and official ruin which will certainly…

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34 CONSERVATIVE MPS HOLD INVESTMENTS IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [ 22 0ctober 1985 ] On this day in 1985, a Labour Party press release revealed that 34 Conservative MPs held investments in Apartheid South Africa and the previous year at least nine had visited South Africa as guests of the South African government. Even the…

REFUGEE DEPORTED BACK TO AFGHANISTAN TO BE EXECUTED BY THE TALIBAN [ 14 September 2018 ] On this day in 2018 reports emerged confirming that a 47 year old Afghan father of four who had previously fled to Britain 16 years earlier, had been “shot dead by the Taliban” after he had been deported back…