ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the status of United Kingdom after the Great War. The Representation of the People Act, 1884 this eliminated the anomalies in the basis of representation between different parts of the United Kingdom. This Act abolished the property qualification for voting and enfranchised women aged 30 and over. Neither the total number of troops deployed in these operations nor the casualties sustained were large in comparison with the Second World War but the 'guerilla' nature of the warfare and the fact that young national servicemen were often involved combined to magnify their impact. The leadership of the various churches has differed in its nature and purpose, reflecting in part diverging attitudes to authority and the respective spheres of the clergy and laity. They were also successful in comparison with activity during the final period of British rule in Aden and with the short and aborted British military activity in Egypt during the 1956 Suez crisis.
