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English cricket captain Douglas Jardine

Egypt also wanted independence. Britain might have considered giving up her claims on Egypt but the Egyptians wanted control over the Sudan as well. This threatened Palestine and the Suez Canal. Britain regarded the Suez Canal as essential to her strategic interests in the Middle East as well as Asia.

JOHN ALLSEBROOK SIMON (1873-1954), First Viscount

• Created First Viscount in 1940
• Born in Bath and educated in Edinburgh and Oxford
• Married twice
• Became a Liberal MP in 1906
• Called to the Bar in 1908
• Home Secretary from 1915 to 1916
• Resigned over conscription which he vehemently opposed
• Remembered for his chairmanship of the Simon Commission (1926) set up to make recommendations for India's future
• The Commission took three years to publish their findings by which time India had been made a Dominion and horrendous violence had broken out
• Home Secretary 1935-1937
• Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937-1940
• Lord Chancellor 1940-1945

Astronomers discovered the planet Pluto in 1930.

The popular writer, G K Chesterton, On The Youth Of 1930
"Nowadays, the young rebels do not want to lay down a rule, but to lay down exceptions. They want to deal with exceptions. They want to be exceptions. I do not say they wish to be regarded as very exceptional people; for that slight error has been common enough in youth, and it is not altogether unknown even in age. But they have broken up the scheme of existence into exceptions, which have no real rule to connect them.

"The result is that their revolutionary colours are not only gaudy, but also patchy. It is not for nothing that that what is called a jazz pattern has become the blazonry of the jazz age. The mentality really does differ from that of the old theoretical revolutionist, as a patchwork of vivid colours differs from the decorative harmony and unity of the old designs of Walter Crane.

"Walter Crane was famous in his day as the artist of the socialists. But Crane had a scheme of decoration, as Shaw had a scheme of government. The mind of the disconcerted youth just now does not appear to be a scheme, even a scheme of stripes or checks; but entirely of spots and splashes."

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1924	First Labour government Baldwin returns Lenin dies.
1926	General Strike
1929	MacDonald becomes Prime Minister for the second time
1930	The Simon Commission publishes its report on India
1931	A National Government is formed
1932	Mosley begins the British Union of Fascists
1933	Hitler becomes German Chancellor Roosevelt becomes US President
1935	Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1936	George V dies Edward VIII abdicates