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Extraordinary in international relations is one government's outright censure of another's cabinet prospect. But "Winnie" Churchill is a fairly extraordinary personality in anybody's government. A Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...
...dashing David Lloyd George was elected a Carnarvonshire alderman at 26, an M. P. at 27, he was criticized as being too brash for one so young. At the end of the century, with such mighty trombones as Joe Chamberlain blaring imperialism, he was criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal with...
Protected by her insularity and guarded by a second-to-none Navy, Britain has long resisted conscription even in wartime. There were no drafts during the Napoleonic campaigns, the Crimean War or the Boer War. Only in 1916, nearly two years after the World War began, was the first British draft made...
...France and last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...
This candid author was born in England 59 years ago, ran off to the Boer War in 1899, almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...