Douglas-Home and Pragmatic Diplomacy

Douglas-Home and Pragmatic Diplomacy

Alec Douglas-Home

A British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964. After succeeding as the 14th Earl of Home and entering the House of Lords in 1951, he disclaimed his peerage in 1963 to enter the House of Commons and assume the premiership. Although his tenure as Prime Minister was brief, he served twice as Foreign Secretary and played a vital role in Cold War diplomacy, Anglo-American relations, relations with the Soviet Union, and nuclear weapons issues. Prior to World War II, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and accompanied him to the Munich Conference.

Timeline

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Element
Year Alec Douglas-Home
1903
Birth of Alec Douglas-Home (Period: July 2, 1903, Location: London)
1931
First election as Member of Parliament for the House of Commons (Age: 28 years old, Period: October 1931, Location: Lanark constituency, Scotland)
1936
Marriage (Alec Douglas-Home, Elizabeth Hester Alington, Age: 33 years old, Period: October 3, 1936, Location: Durham Cathedral, England)
1937
Appointment as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Chamberlain (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1937–1939, Location: London, British Government)
1938
Munich Conference (Age: 35 years old, Period: September 1938, Location: Munich, Germany)
1940
Interruption of political activity due to spinal tuberculosis (Age: 36 years old, Period: c. 1940–1943, Location: Britain)
1943
Activities as a diplomat and security theorist during World War II (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1943–1945, Location: London, UK Parliament)
1947
Cold War (Age: 43 years old, Period: c. 1947–1991, Location: Europe, North America, Cuba, etc.)
1951
Succeeded as the 14th Earl of Home (Age: 47 years old, Period: July 1951, Location: Scotland and the British House of Lords)
1955
Appointment as Commonwealth Secretary (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1955–1960, Location: London and Commonwealth nations)
1960
Appointment as Foreign Secretary (Age: 56 years old, Period: July 1960–October 1963, Location: London, British Foreign Office)
1961
Berlin Crisis and construction of the Berlin Wall (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1961, Location: Berlin, Germany)
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis (Age: 59 years old, Period: October 1962, Location: Cuba, USA, Soviet Union, Washington, London)
1963
Profumo affair (Age: 59 years old, Period: 1963, Location: London, England)
Signing of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Age: 60 years old, Period: August 5, 1963, Location: Moscow, Soviet Union)
Appointment as British Prime Minister (Age: 60 years old, Period: October 19, 1963, Location: London, Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street)
1964
1964 United Kingdom general election (Age: 61 years old, Period: October 15, 1964, Location: All of Britain)
1965
Resignation as Conservative Party leader and leadership election reform (Age: 61 years old, Period: July 1965, Location: London, England)
Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1965, Location: Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia)
1968
D'Oliveira affair (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1968, Location: South Africa, Britain, Australia)
1970
Return to office as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1970–1974, Location: London and European Commonwealth nations)
1974
Return to the House of Lords and retirement from politics (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1974–1995, Location: London, British House of Lords)
1995
Death of Alec Douglas-Home (Age: 92 years old, Period: October 9, 1995 (aged 92))

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NATO Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Harold Macmillan Ernest Bevin Konrad Adenauer Paul-Henri Spaak Pierre Mendès France Margaret Thatcher Helmut Schmidt
British Conservative Party Anthony Eden Winston Churchill Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher John Major
British Labour Party Clement Attlee Harold Wilson James Callaghan Michael Foot Neil Kinnock
Culture and Thought Francis Bacon Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Albert Camus Hannah Arendt George Orwell Arthur Koestler Umberto Eco Italo Calvino Jean-Philippe Arthur Dubuffet
Science and Technology John Cockcroft Francis Crick James Watson Dennis Gabor Dorothy Hodgkin Tim Berners-Lee Paul Flory

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