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WEST TOUR BY POST-CHAISE

... by Basil an intimate and d written record of a cult* I in-fhree phases of his h man about town theatre and the arts, a Ax \ Whig, opponent of the American colonists, and in religion. On a visit to the WestC post-chaise, he stayed Prince George Hotel. **f ...

Published: Monday 20 November 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sir, —In recent address at the Dartington Hall Cattle Breedtng Centre, Prof. Dalling (Chief Veterinary Officer ..

... two years the early 30s, to realise that the steady and continuing progress of the British people has been due to Tories and Whigs, Conservatives and Liberals, and has not been miraculously achieved during the past five years. Your correspondent also asks ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 706 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'Never stabbed Liberals in the back'

... misunderstanding by the electorate. I shall take care to ensure that all electors of Exeter, be they , Socialist. Radical. Whig, or Tory, shall know my views. Then, knowing them, they must vote as their conscience dictates. * Action democratic' In the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Sir. —Miss Florence Lake is concerned about the change of prospective Liberal candidates in the Torrington ..

... policy it must be obvious to all, except the most stubborn diehards who are still endeavouring to continue the 19th century Tory-Whig antagonism, that the two parties are closer in creed than ever before. The Liberals have dropped World Free Trade from their ...

Published: Tuesday 31 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WEST GREYHOUND DETAILS

... winning the 8.40 race (500 in 28.505ec. by lengths from David The Highwayman won his seventh successive race. Results: 7.O—WHIG A MORE (10-1). U Auburn Girl (6-4 on, f.) 2. Time: 30.05. Tote: Win. 21s. 34.: places, 6s. 6d.. 2s. 9d.; forecast i 4 and 2) ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor HISTORY 'WILL BLAME LIBERALS' Sir—Today the Liberals of this country generally will have ..

... Westcountry are Liberals chiefly because their fathers and forefathers were Liberal, and, if we go back far ! enough, probably Whigs. The Liberals of the last century were ps opposed to Socialism as, if not ' more than, the Conservatives of today, and in view ...

Published: Tuesday 28 February 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

When Callington last rode out to beat its parish bounds

... A HUNDRED YEARS AGO r date was November 28, 1850. Queen Victoria was on the throne, Lord John Russell was Prime Minister a Whig Government, David Livingstone was exploring Darkest Africa, Charles Dickens had just finished writing David Copperfield ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONTROLS

... being suspicious. A great writer once confessed to reporting the debates of Parliament in such a way as to make sure that the Whig dogs got the worst of it. We suspect the manipulation of the present controls in such a way as to point the appropriate political ...

Published: Friday 19 May 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1488 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Position of farmers under the Labour Government Sir, feel I cannot let Mr. Harcourt ..

... error in appointing as agent one who has as little knowledge of the history of Liberalism in the St. Ives Division as the old Whigs had of the National Health Scheme. It was the late G. K. Chesterton who said that the most unlikely place to find a Liberal ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1408 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Clement Davies and his 'chosen few'—by a Devon M.P

... the millions of his countrymen, who do not agree with him, as lower than vermin. They may even hark back to the days of the Whigs and Tories, who alone built up our great Empire, before the present-day disciples Karl Marx do their best to pull down. They ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1310 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Devonshire Sir Stafford was once Chancellor of Exchequer

... his day the best of a not too brilliant lot but he was essentially a party man, who prided himself on nothing but in being Whig. He jumped into and out of the Chancellorship with bewildering rapidity, being more than once dismissed from his post. This ...

Published: Tuesday 04 April 1950
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1601 | Page: 4 | Tags: none