In 1930, Mohandhi Gandhi led the most famous, and most widely covered, protest of his career.

With a sympathetic labor government in Britain, could a breakthrough in the political conflict between Britain and Indian nationalists finally be at hand.

Not, according, to Mr. Churchill.

Welcome to the history

of the 20th century.

Thank you. Episode 276, the Salt Marge.

Edward Wood was born on April 16, 1881, the sixth child and fourth son of the Viscount Halifax. His mother was the daughter of the Earl of

Devon. His father was the head of the English Church Union, an Anglo-Catholic organization that

emphasized the Catholic heritage of the Anglican Church,

hence his son was raised with a deep spiritual commitment to Anglicanism with a Catholic slant

and with an equally deep commitment to fox hunting,

which he loved,

despite the challenge of having been born without a left hand.

By the time he was 10 years old, his three older brothers had passed away, leaving him heir to his father's title, estate, and seat in the House of Lords.

In the meantime, he stood for a seat in the House of Commons in 1910 as a conservative.

In 1921, he was made under Secretary for the Colonies,

a junior post under the colonial secretary, Winston Churchill.

By all accounts, the two of them did not get along, even then.

After the conservatives returned to power in 1924,

Churchill returned to Parliament as a conservative

and was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, episode 240,

while Wood was also named to the cabinet as Minister for Agriculture.

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