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...Churchill, who had been listening to the indictments of his pusillanimity with a wry smile, jerked himself to his feet to confound his critics. He had tried, said he, to settle a naval building policy in order to prevent yearly friction between the Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided...
...once Confound, and entertain the fight...
Enchantress ever, the moon has from the first inspired ambiguous conjecture, leaving most men readier to impute to malevolence her obscure government of rhythms in nature than to find benign her whiteness, her remote hauteur. "She is wise," they said, "only to confound; her beauty maketh mad." Yet gardeners, and others whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot...
...strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could, if he would, confound his opponents by telling them a thing...
Russia: "I do not confound the Russian people nor the Russian Government with the Moscow International, whose political literature is stupid and puerile, and does not impress me. In trying to reestablish relations with the Soviet Republic, I shall not let myself be maneuvered by agitation and I shall not forget that small French investors have great interests in Russia...