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British By-Elections: What Do They Prove?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

John Cunningham Sparks
John Cunningham Sparks
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Ohio State University
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“Returns from three more by-elections make it abundantly clear that the British people are not behind Prime Minister Chamberlain in his peace-at-any-price policies.” Thus the Nation summed up the results of the first five post-Munich byelections. The London Times, however, in an editorial on the ninth of the same series, thought “the result of the East Norfolk by-election should hearten and stiffen the Government.”

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Foreign Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , February 1940 , pp. 97 - 104
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1940

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References

1 November 26, 1938.

2 January 28, 1939.

3 November 25, 1938.

4 December 30, 1938.

5 One cannot resist speculating in this case on the influence of the corrupt practices provision which, while permitting the volunteering of conveyances to take voters to the polls, prohibits their hire for the same purpose. For the fortune of the Duke, added to his intense ire over the behavior of the local Conservative association, could easily have resulted in enough conveyances to get the supporters of the Duchess to the polls.

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