20th April 1940
Sir John Simon smiles over budget secrets
Photo shows the Chancellor smiling as he checks over at the treasury in London the pages of the budget speech he made in the House of Commons on april 23rd.
Fotografia d'epoca del Cancelliere dello Scacchiere, Sir. John Simon, mentre sorride revisionando i numeri della situazione finanziaria che ebbe a presentare in Parlamento il successivo 23 aprile 1940.
Photo Keystone Copyright - London
Vera fotografia d'epoca, originale e autentica.
Sono presenti il timbro datario e la nota dattiloscritta al verso.
In buone condizioni
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Note: by 1940 Simon, along with his successor as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, had come to be seen as one of the "Guilty Men" responsible for appeasement of the dictators, and like Hoare his continued service in the War Cabinet was not regarded as acceptable in the new coalition. Simon was raised to the peerage as Viscount Simon, of Stackpole Elidor in the County of Pembroke, and became Lord Chancellor in Churchill's government, although he did not sit in the War Cabinet. In 1945 Churchill formed a brief "Caretaker" administration but once again excluded Simon from the Cabinet. After Churchill's defeat in 1945, Simon never held office again. Although he had won plaudits for his legal skills as Lord Chancellor, Attlee declined to appoint him to the British delegation at the Nuremberg War Trials, telling him bluntly in a letter that his role in the pre-war governments made this unwise. In 1951 Churchill did not offer him a return to the Woolsack.
