Rise of Labour and the Fall of Empire
The Memoirs of William Hare, Fifth Earl of Listowel

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Sommario

Acknowledgements; Editor's introduction; Preface; 1. Origins and ancestors; 2. Early life: 1906�24; 3. Student life: 1924�32; 4. Politics in the 1930s; 5. Army life; 6. Parliamentary mission to Australia and New Zealand: 1944; 7. Deputy Leader, House of Lords, coalition government: 1944; 8. Postmaster General: 1945; 9. Secretary of State for India until independence: 1947; 10. Secretary of State for Burma until independence: 1948; 11. Minister of State for the colonies: 1948�50; 12. Governor General of Ghana: 1957�60; 13. The Molson Commission: Uganda and the lost counties of Bunyoro: 1961; 14. The House of Lords: past, present and future; Appendix � selected correspondence between Lord Listowel and Lord Mountbatten concerning the end of British rule in India; Index.

Riassunto

At the time of his death, William Francis Hare (1906-1997), fifth Earl of Listowel, was the longest serving member of the House of Lords and the Privy Council. His career, recorded through these memoirs, both witnessed and influenced some of the most remarkable events in twentieth-century British history.