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AFTER he returned to London from Dublin John Anderson continued his peripatetic progress through Whitehall. Since leaving the Ministry of Shipping in the spring of 1919 he had served in four separate Government departments, his longest period being in Dublin Castle. Yet throughout his appointment as Under-Secretary and Treasury Representative in Ireland he had continued to hold nominally the Chairmanship of the Board of Inland Revenue and it was to this post that he returned in January 1922.
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Sir Harold Scott, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.B.E., Your Obedient Servant (1959), p. 64.
St. John Ervine, Craigavon, Ulsterman (1949), pp. 500–508.
Donal O’Sullivan, The Irish Free State and its Senate (1940), p. 180.
Viscount Norwich, Old Men Forget (1953), p. 147. It is of interest to note that Mr. J. H. Thomas in his autobiography is at great pains to emphasize ‘that the General Strike of 1926 was not called with any idea of revolution…. It was simply a gesture of sympathy with the miners’ (My Story (1937), p. 96).
G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin (1952), p. 99.
Julian Symons, The General Strike (1957), p. 24.
Among the many important decisions taken at this time was that of maintaining an adequate supply of electricity for the London docks. This was assured by an order from the Admiralty stationing six submarines in the Pool of London for the purpose of generating supply. Credit for this idea has frequently been given to John Anderson, whereas Sir William Joynson-Hicks’s biographer claims it for the Home Secretary (see H. A. Taylor, Jix—Viscount Brentford (1933), p. 199). In point of fact neither was responsible. The idea came from Mr. E. T. Williams, at that time Assistant Director of Electrical Engineering in the Admiralty, who was subsequently commended by Their Lordships for his ‘imagination in initiating this scheme’. Action on the suggestion could not have been taken without the authority and knowledge of both the Home Secretary and John Anderson, but neither of them gave it birth.
Viscount Templewood, Nine Troubled Years (1954), p. 31. In view of this tribute, it is perhaps of interest to note that no mention of John Anderson is made in Sir William Joynson-Hicks’s biography.
J. H. Thomas (op. cit.), pp. 167–176; Raymond Postgate, The Life of George Lansbury (1951), pp. 252–258.
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Wheeler-Bennett, J.W. (1962). Home Office 1922–1932. In: John Anderson. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81765-8_4
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