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Eleven of the 27 members of the 1952 National Executive Committee (NEC) were banned; and by 1955, 42 ANC leaders, including Walter Sisulu, had been banned. [11] During the 1950s, while the ANC intensified its domestic programme of protest action, it also began calling in the international arena for sanctions against the apartheid state.
Ministry of National Service is established. [26] 21 May 1917 The first National Kitchen is opened by Queen Mary in Westminster Bridge Road, London, providing cheap meals for those affected by food shortages. [27] A German Gotha G.IV bomber in flight, 1917. 25 May 1917 First raid on England by German Gotha heavy bomber aircraft at Folkestone in ...
The NCC was re-formed during August 1940, just over a year after conscription was reintroduced. [10] The corps was composed of conscripted men who had been registered as non-combatants by tribunals. [11] Unlike in the First World War, there were also enlisted members of the NCC who had been deemed not physically competent for combatant service ...
The Military Service Act 1916 [1] (5 & 6 Geo. 5. c. c. 104) was an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom during the First World War to impose conscription in Great Britain , but not in Ireland or any other British jurisdiction.
Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, and Frans Coetzee, eds. World War One and European Society (1995). Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn, and Frans Coetzee, eds. World War I: A History in Documents (2002) [ISBN missing] New International Year Book 1913 Comprehensive coverage of world affairs; strong on economics; 867pp; New International Year Book 1914, 913pp
Conscription during the First World War began when the British Parliament passed the Military Service Act in January 1916. The Act specified that single men aged 18 to 40 years old were liable to be called up for military service unless they were widowed with children, or were ministers of a religion.
Opposition to World War I was widespread during the conflict and included socialists, such as anarchists, syndicalists, and Marxists, as well as Christian pacifists, anti-colonial nationalists, feminists, intellectuals, and the working class. The socialist movement had declared before the war their opposition to a war which they said could only ...
The new government lasted a year and a half, and this was the last time Liberals controlled the government. [22] The analysis of historian A. J. P. Taylor is that the British people were so deeply divided over numerous issues, but on all sides there was growing distrust for the Asquith government. There was no agreement whatsoever on wartime ...