ABSTRACT
The first to speak after Churchill’s speech is Sir Herbert Samuel (1870–1963), who gave his first speech in the House in 1902, the year in which he published Liberalism: its Principles and Proposals, and with J. Ramsay MacDonald, J. A. Hobson, Charles Trevelyan, Samuel was in the Rainbow Circle, a political and social discussion group that met in London between 1894 and 1931 whose ideas on welfare and foreign policy influenced Liberal governments before the First World War. Samuel frames the agreement between Chamberlain and Churchill and his own concurrence with them. Samuel discusses tariffs and trade between Germany and Britain. The last two years were a waste of time as both countries have gone back to their positions of two years ago and that includes British coal exports: “In the meantime, tens of thousands of British miners have for a year or two years been deprived of their employment.”
