Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, Episode 106,

the beginning of the end.

As stated last time, Churchill, because of his limited grasp of economics, had an equally

limited grasp of his and many others financial futures after the great crash of the New York

Stock Exchange.

So it should come as no surprise that when Winston came home in early November of 1929,

he was easily distracted from his fall from financial grace by an event that seemed much

larger.

Indeed, it seemed to the MP for mapping that the world, his world, everything he knew

was being pulled out from under him.

Lord Irwin, but who would later be better known as Lord Halifax, the new vice-order

India, had just recommended that Britain's goal for the subcontinent should be the realization

of dominion status.

In other words, Lord Irwin was recommending India should be run by Indians, sometime in

the not-too-distant future.

The labor party, not unexpectedly, focused only on its voters supported this idea.

Still, this shocked Winston who could not conceive of an independent India, but the

real shock came when Baldwin, the Tory leader, his boss, without consulting any party members,

also agreed to this goal.

Now, in some ways, this was a tempest in a teapot, because for most of those people outside

of the British Empire, its colonial possessions were no longer looked upon with all.

The great war that had shattered so many lives had also shattered many ideas, ideas that

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