Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium the above statement would not be necessary. They know. But it would be a great misfortune to have Mr. Moen's misstatement taken at its face value by a new generation which has grown up since that time. I need only quote comment of the British Premier Asquith that the Commission for Relief in Belgium was "a miracle of scientific organization" and that "we are convinced that this relief food reaches the Belgians and the French and reaches them alone. . . . It is one of the finest achievements in the history of humanitarian and philanthropic organizations...
...idea while staying at the Savoy, in 20 minutes talked Farson into writing the scenario. The scene will be the inside of a big London hotel between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.; personal appearances by such familiar Londoners as Lord Castlerosse, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Carroll Gibbons and Manning Sherwin will add a touch of realism. Says Farson: "The story is fiction, but the bombardment outside is undeniable fact. You'll see the courage, boredom and complications arising when scores of variegated people are flung together, willy-nilly, in a confined space under danger...
...such moment came in 1911. Prime Minister Asquith invited Churchill to a secret rendezvous in Scotland, there told him he had documentary evidence that Germany was preparing war against England. "Would you like to go to the Admiralty?" asked Asquith. Churchill went to his room, opened the Bible at random, read: "Hear, O Israel, thou art to pass over Jordan this day. ..." He took...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill laughed at seniority, advanced sea pups over sea dogs, shifted the navy from coal to oil to increase cruising range, shifted (secretly) from 13.5-inch guns to 15-inch guns to increase fire range, founded the air arm. He burst into tears when Asquith told Parliament that World War I had begun-but the fleet was ready...
...bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver as a jut-jawed naval commander, David Tree as his lovesick rival. But it is chiefly notable as a demonstration of what eye-rolling Ellen Drew and eyebrow-lifting Ray Milland can be made to do by a capable director-Anthony Asquith, who co-directed Pygmalion...