Word: asquiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premiers Baldwin, George and Asquith promised the Premier a hot debate on his trip to Paris, but nothing obstructive was contemplated. In Paris, Premier Herriot received an almost unanimous vote of confidence from the Senate, in connection with the Premiers' Conference...
Premier MacDonald took the chair; among those present were high naval, military and air force officers, ex-Premiers Balfour, Asquith, George, Baldwin...
...each). When a distinguished Liberal editor, such as J. Alfred Spender, undertakes to write the biography of so great a Liberal luminary as Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, onetime (1905-1908) Prime Minister of England, the result is almost certain to satisfy the highest expectations of exacting critics. Ex-Premier Asquith, himself a rare survivor of the school led by Campbell- Bannerman, has placed on record his appreciation of the author's work in these excellent volumes. "If it ever became my fate to have my biography written," he says,* ". . . there are no hands to which I would rather that...
...place in British political history is certainly great. His statesmanship was of a high order and as a politician his influence was far-reaching. How much does ex-Premier Asquith owe to his predecessor? Probably he himself could not answer that question. Both men have carried on a British tradition in that they were both Premiers of high intellectual attainments. But it remains to be said of Sir Henry that he prepared the way for the Long Parliament of Mr. Asquith (1908-1915) by his efficient conduct in Parliament and by his masterly management of the Liberal Party. He inculcated...
...book by ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith is like a jewel bought at Tiffany's ?you know it is good before you take a look at it. Thus it is with this book of essays which includes subjects as diverse as Reading and Writing and The Past Crusade...