Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin "I am just one of yourselves who has been called to special work for the country at this time. I never sought the office. I never planned out or schemed my life. I have but one idea, which was an idea that I inherited, and it was the idea of service - service to the people of this country." - audio -

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Stanley Baldwin outside Worcester Cathedral with Edward Elgar

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Stanley Baldwin with his daughter, 1923.

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Английский премьер на охоте. Глава кабинета английских министров Стэнли Болдуин устроил в своей чудесной резиденции Чекерс охоту, после которой радушно принимал ее участников, сам разливая в буфете пиво по стаканам.

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Stanley Baldwin at a farmers' show. Baldwin, for long the head of a large iron and combine, is more generally known as a country squire, proud of his swedes and his pigs.

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Impossible for Baldwin to be photographed without his pipe! Impossible for him to meet interviewers without modestly asking their permission to light up! Even when the Worcestershire Cricket Club asked him to present a gold cigarette box to a retiring professional, Baldwin felt obliged to tell the recipient that "I should keep tobacco in this box if I were you, instead of cigarettes, which are bad for the eye and bad for the nerves. Take to a pipe!" - Bechhofer Roberts

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The whole nation, men and women alike, will express themselves effectively in the ballot box without any qualification or disqualification of sex. That prospect does not alarm me in the least.

Stanley Baldwin speaking to a crowd the month the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act was introduced, 1928.

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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin with fishermen's wives, in 1928 in Yarmouth, United Kingdom.

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Stanley Baldwin in 1923.

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You do not go into politics for what you can get, you go there for what you can give.

Stanley Baldwin, 1928.

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[x] Compared to today’s 24-hour election news coverage, a twice-weekly 5-minute silent newsreel might seem underwhelming. But with the nation at the polls and little actual news to report, the padding shots of pensive politicians and fancy graphics - here some 'lightning' cartoons of the party leaders - are actually quite familiar.

The cartoon represents Conservative Stanley Baldwin with his iconic pipe; Liberal leader Herbert Asquith, propped up by party rival David Lloyd George; and Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald lifted by the "working man". Although the Conservatives won the most seats, the result was a hung Parliament leading to the country’s first Labour Government - albeit a short-lived minority one. 

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Before Chanak, no one could have forecast that Baldwin would be Chancellor within weeks, or Prime Minister within about seven months. The most formidable politicians do not always look formidable.

Harold Wilson

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Baldwin deserves to go down in history as a healer, one who sought to build bridges, especially in the always potentially explosive area of industrial relations. He became Prime Minister at a particularly difficult time. Less than five years after the end of the war, the tensions with which Asquith had had to cope on the eve of the war had become more dangerous. Post-war unemployment, the increased power of workshop democracy as a result of the wartime concentration on munitions production, a new generation of industrial leaders, particularly at local level, and the new dimension created by the Soviet Revolution, meant a far worse situation than Asquith had faced.

Harold Wilson