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...despair." He denounced the Bonar Law Government in strong terms and prophesied that their inanimate policy regarding the Ruhr would soon bring about their fall. "The Government is rapidly losing prestige," said he. "Its supporters are discouraged." He also urged the coalition of the Liberal parties (his own and Asquith's) as necessary to fight revolutionary labor...
...House Sir John Simon (Asquith liberal) asked "whether happy acquiescence is still to be the keynote of British policy? " Mr. Asquith and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, former Minister of Education, also criticized the Government's policy toward the Ruhr. Mr. Bonar Law did not reply, but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government, stated that its policy was unchanged and that mediation in the Ruhr was at present impossible. On a division of the House, ostensibly on account of a civil service vote, the Government secured a majority of only...
...American innocent abroad has long been the butt of foreign laughter and scorn. In fact foreigners, from Charles Dickens to Lady Asquith, have journeyed even to our own front stoop to voice all manner of criticisms, the burden of which has ever been that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers". "Little", they tell us, "do we see in art which is ours...
...abandoned the center party idea, which was to be composed all the moderates of any political organization, and which for the is eking out an existence under name of the National Liberal Party. It is agreed that the way is now for the reunion of the Liberal and Mr. Asquith, leader of the Liber als, has already made it clear that does not intend to vacate that office...
...Margot Asquith: "My secretary told reporters that I shall not contest Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-Cormick's claim of having been the first wife of King Tutankhamen. The headquarters of the British Theosophical Society is opposite my house; but that is as close as I ever got to theosophy...