{"id":5746,"date":"2024-02-28T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olddays.co.uk\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:05:06","slug":"malta-requests-for-financial-and-economic-assistance-1949","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/malta-requests-for-financial-and-economic-assistance-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta Requests for Financial and Economic Assistance 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5744 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1616\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-scaled.jpg 1616w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-768x1217.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-970x1536.jpg 970w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-1293x2048.jpg 1293w, https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Malta-Requests-for-Financial-and-Economic-Assistance-1949.011-570x903.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\" \/>Sir Paul Boffa, OBE (30 June 1890 \u2013 6 July 1962) was Maltese prime minister between 1947 and 1950. He took office after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authority following the end of World War II. In 1949, following the Malta Labour Party&#8217;s ultimatum to Britain concerning financial help, the party split up; but Paul Boffa continued as Prime Minister. More <a href=\"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/archive\/malta-requests-for-financial-and-economic-assistance-1949\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Paul Boffa, OBE (30 June 1890 \u2013 6 July 1962) was Maltese prime minister between 1947 and 1950. He took office after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authority following the end of World War II. In 1949, following the Malta Labour Party&#8217;s ultimatum to Britain concerning financial help, the party split up; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5744,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5746","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5746\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}