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Andrew Bonar Law

In: Essays in Biography

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  • John Maynard Keynes

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Mr Bonar Law’s breakdown1 is a great misfortune, not less to his political opponents than to his own supporters. We shall not easily find another leader of the Conservative Party who is so unprejudiced. Mr Bonar Law has been, before everything, a party man, deeply concerned for his party, obedient to its instincts, and at each crisis the nominee of its machine. On two crucial questions, Tariff Reform and the support of Ulster, he adopted with vehemence the extreme party view. Yet, in truth, he was almost devoid of Conservative principles. This Presbyterian from Canada has no imaginative reverence for the traditions and symbols of the past, no special care for vested interests, no attachment whatever to the Upper Classes, the City, the Army, or the Church. He is prepared to consider each question on its merits, and his candid acknowledgement of the case for a capital levy was a striking example of an habitual state of mind.

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  • John Maynard Keynes, 2010. "Andrew Bonar Law," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Essays in Biography, chapter 0, pages 33-36, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-59074-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_4
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