Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England
Yearwood, Peter J.![Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/319/31907799/CHSBZCOP0331907799.jpg)
This book shows how a stormy parliamentary debate over the sale of German properties in Nigeria on 8 November 1916 began the process which brought down Asquith and made Lloyd George prime minister. The Colonial Secretary, Bonar Law, who was also leader of the Conservative Party, wanted neutral firms to bid. Usually presented as a policy imposed on him by doctrinaire Liberal free-traders, it was in fact that of the colonial government, which ho...