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Resignation of Neville Chamberlain

Great Britain · Government / National Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1939–1940Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1939

Neville Chamberlain9 May 1939

London · Government / National Government

Appeals for unity and invites Greenwood and Attlee to join a coalition government with him as Prime Minister

1940

Neville Chamberlain10 May 1940

London · Government / National Government

Labour will not serve in a Government with Chamberlain in. Attlee informs Chamberlain saying Labour will serve in the Government without him

Names involved

Neville Chamberlain

Provenance

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