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Even the King was perturbed. He called the First Lord of the Admiralty, William Clive Bridgeman, to Buckingham Palace and asked for details. Meanwhile the British public was flabbergasted by reports that there had been a "mutiny" aboard H. M. S. Royal Oak, Flagship of the First Battle Squadron of the British Mediterranean Fleet...
...Admiralty's estimate of its budgetary needs was presented to the House of Commons, last week, by rubicund First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman. After tolling out the mighty total sum of ?57,300,000 ($278,478,000), Mr. Bridgeman remarked that this represents a cut of ?700,000 from the appropriations of last year...
...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...
England, long pictured as the naval ogre of the world, a monster uncontent with parity in armament with the United States, may be given her answer. For, speaking in the House of Commons two weeks ago William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that two of the big British cruisers that had been building under the terms of the disarmament treaty had been abandoned. At the same time he declared that Britain intended to restrict it cruiser tonnage next year to a mar', below that of the treaty agreement...
William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced to the assembled commoners that the Government has decided to "about ship" as regards its naval construction program. He said that two of the three cruisers ordered to be laid down this year would not be proceeded with, owing to "the situation disclosed at the Geneva Naval Conference." The announcement was received by prolonged cheering in all parts of the House...