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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...
...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...
...suggested that the curved plate, if equipped with a handle, might also make an entrenching tool, his memo came to rest in the Munitions Ministry's office of Trench Warfare Supplies. There it might have remained until the End of Wars had not his friend, the late Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years of agitation to induce the military authorities to accept the steel helmet, I . . . returned...
...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...