Churchill's reaction to the independence movemnt

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Churchill was bitterly opposed to the movement for greater indepedence for India, which gathered pace after 1918
Before 1918 only one person in seven was entitled to vote in Britain; British women and many male workers had little more say in the democratic progress than Indians
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However, after 1918 Britain had become more democratic
In 1934 Churchill was bitter in his attacks on government ministers over India reform proposals.
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Despite the crisises that Britain had faced since 1910 both at home and abroad - war, social unrest, discontent in the Empire and economic problems - the monarchy had been a stable element in British life
George V, who reigned from 1910 to 1936, was in many ways the first of the modern monarchs
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In November 1936, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told the King that public opinion would not accept Wallis Simpson as Queen
In December 1936 Edward broadcast his speech of abdications
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In Edwardian Britain, for instance, King Edwrad VII (1901-10) had been well-known for his mistrisses and raucous behaviour, but the Britain of the 1930s had a different moral outlook.
In January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany
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Churchill did not object to the concept of a nationalist dictatorship, as his praise for Mussolini's rule in Italy in the 1920s had shown
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) led the Italian facist movement and established a one-party dictatorship in Italy after taking offcie as premier in 1922
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