Word: britain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...career of David Lloyd George as a war Premier of Great Britain has been a stormy one. Founded upon the ruins of the discarded partisan system, his cabinet, a highly centralized war council representing, in theory at least, all political elements of the nation, has seen a trying period in English development. It has had to face the problems of directing a great war; it has had brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs...
...wealth of the United States is greater than the combined wealth of Great Britain, France and Germany. The national debt of Great Britain is 192 per cent of the estimated yearly income of the British people; the debt of Germany is 246 per cent of the German people's income; the debt of France is 333 per cent of the yearly income of the people of France. Our debt is 17 1-2 per cent of our national income. In other words, if France should devote the entire yearly income of its people to paying off its national debt...
Close on the heels of the start of the greatest battle of history, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has introduced the largest budget by far that Great Britain has ever faced. With a national debt now standing at the huge total of over thirty billions, England is now preparing to lay on herself this additional burden of some fourteen billion dollars for the coming year. After three and one-half years of war, the Chancellor has announced that the financial condition of the country is more than good enough to stand the added strain...
...anything like fulfilled. Nevertheless the figures now given as to the world's shipping show that the loss by submarines is serious; that the new shipping launched is not keeping up with the losses; and that the submarine will be a continuing menace until ship-building in Great Britain and the United States is speeded up to more than cover the losses. Sir Eric puts the gross loss from all causes in the world's shipping (exclusive of enemy loss) during the war at over 11,000,000 tons, of which 6,000,000 tons were lost...
...Archbishop's mission in this country is to help bind more firmly the ties of close relationship between the United States and Great Britain. Our sympathy for his country has been steadily growing; England could have chosen no better method of increasing it still further than by sending here a man who so eminently represents the best of her traditions. He has the confidence of the King and of the Government, and what he says can be taken as authoritative. In addition, he is a most excellent speaker...