Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could, and usually did, cause trouble. Perhaps his father's early and humiliating death from syphilis made him fear that time would run out before his own destiny could be fulfilled. "How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" he told Violet Asquith. But if Churchill saw death as an obstacle to ambition, his follow-up remark to the Prime Minister's daughter suggested a way to meet the unavoidable. "We are all worms," he said morosely. "But I do believe that I am a glowworm...
...signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around like a box of chocolates, help yourself, choose your favorite flavor." Even with anarchist chap pies on the loose, life was a whole lot simpler in those days...
Your assessment of Britain's economic and political difficulties must not be allowed to remain flawed by the statement that Liberals have "never" held power. Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George were among the Prime Ministers who headed Liberal or Liberal-dominated governments. An ideological split in 1918 was the cause of the decline of the Liberals, which in turn resulted in the rise of the Labor Party. If the present schism in the Labor Party continues, the centrist Liberal Party may yet prove to be a political phoenix...