COOPER (Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich, 1890-1954, Politician, Diplomat & Author)

Typed Letter Signed ‘Duff’ to “Dear Jim” thanking him for “sending my your book which I shall read with great interest. I fear though there is no chance of my reviewing it as I have neither the time nor the opportunity to do any book reviewing just now...”, 1 side 4to., 90 Gower Street, headed paper, 9th June

He was first elected to Parliament in 1924, lost his seat in 1929 but returned to Parliament in the 1931 Westminster St George's by-election, which was seen as a referendum on Stanley Baldwin's leadership of the Conservative Party. He later served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for War and First Lord of the Admiralty. In the intense political debates of the late 1930s over appeasement, he first put his trust in the League of Nations, and later realised that war with Germany was inevitable. He denounced the Munich agreement of 1938 as meaningless, cowardly, and unworkable, as he resigned from the cabinet.



Item Date:  1937

Stock No:  41858      £175

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