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1864–1937 England

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (18 July 1864 – 15 May 1937) was a British politician, and the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer. He broke with Labour policy in 1931, and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat, as the party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported.

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Also known as: Philip Snowden

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I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.

"Truth," it has been said, "is the first casualty of war."

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

It is no part of my job as Chancellor of the Exchequer to put before the House of Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

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