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Commented Lady Oxford, famed as Margot Asquith: "A vast dummy gun is on the fine site opposite the hospital, which would have been glad to receive half the money spent on it and other horrors that we could all numerate to perpetuate the spirit which it should be the privilege of the Church to combat...
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...PUBLIC LIFE-J. A. Spender-Stokes (2 vols., $10.00). Public life, as defined by the author for his purpose, is the profession of statesmen and politicians. This profession he exemplifies by some monographs on famous statesmen and politicians-Bright, Cobden, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, George-by analyzing the parliamentary duties of politicians, by contrasting the British parliamentary system with the systems of the U. S., France and Germany, by conducting a brilliant inquiry into the problems of statecraft, by examining the relations between people and press, press and government and by descanting on political ethics...
...great dignity, became vacant on the death of Lord Curzon (TIME, Mar. 30). It was offered to Lord Milner, but he died before he could be installed (TIME, May 25). It was then decided to hold an election; and it appeared likely that the Earl of Oxford and Asquith-Premier H. H. Asquith, possibly the most distinguished of living Oxonians-would be chosen...
...made no mark in Parliament for ten years, but outside he had an excellent reputation as a capable lawyer. He was appointed permanent counsel for Oxford University and Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. In Asquith's short-lived coalition Government, he became Solicitor General, and, the year following, Premier George made him Home Secretary, in which capacity he remained for two years and distinguished himself in the House by his able speeches. The year 1919 saw him a Lord of Appeal and in the Bonar Law and Baldwin Governments he was Lord High Chancellor, a position...