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"A Party For Ordinary Blokes:" The Birth Of Britain's Labour Party, 1900-1924 - Page 3


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Footnotes:

(1) George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England, 2nd ed., (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961), p. 10.

(2) It wasn't until 1918 that the Labour Party adopted, as part of its Constitution, the famous Clause 4, pledging the Party to eventual socialism. The Clause was removed in 1995.

(3) The British equivalent of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

(4) An intellectual organization that consisted then of such intellectuals as Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. The organization is still in existence today.

(5) Carl F. Brand, The British Labour Party, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1974), p. 11.

(6) Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-90, (NY: Penguin, 1996), p. 405.

(7) G.D.H. Cole, A History of the Labour Party From 1914, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1948), pp. 43-44.

(8) Clarke, p. 406. See also Charles Loch Mowat, Britain Between the Wars: 1918-40, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1955), p. 7.

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