Word: gallipoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just before elections. But while more colorful Laborites battled noisily, Attlee quietly gathered supporters, soon was laying down the Labor line with undisputed authority. Before his leadership was a year old, he firmly turned the party from Lansbury's doctrinaire pacifism (he himself was an infantry major at Gallipoli in World War I). He grimly warned Conservatives celebrating "peace in our time" that Munich was "one of the greatest defeats that this country and France have ever sustained." Though leader of a movement traditionally sympathetic to Russia and suspicious of the U.S. Attlee ranged his nation alongside...
...August 1915, Lieut. John Harding led a platoon against the Turks at Gallipoli, where British forces, too little and too late, were defeated. This week Harding, now a field marshal and retiring chief of the Imperial General Staff, returned to the eastern Mediterranean to repair the damage done in Cyprus by too little diplomacy too late. Sir John's appointment as governor of Cyprus, the headquarters of Britain's Middle East armed forces, was notice that Britain meant to crack down on violence stirred up in the name of enosis (union) with Greece...
...intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over ?1,850,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. However, the duke made the arrangement too late, and in 1950 he died before it could become...
...soldier; at 22, a captain, he rebelled against the Sultan and was nearly executed; at 27, he joined the Young Turks rebellion, then rebelled against the Young Turks. The army, fearful of him, shunted him from post to post, but could neither shake him nor subdue him. At Gallipoli, in 1915, he defeated the British; in the Caucasus, he checked the Russians; in Berlin, 1918, he drunkenly needled the high panjandrum of his allies, Field Marshal von Hindenburg; in Arabia, 1918, he held off T. E. Lawrence's Bedouin hordes. At 38, he came out of the crash...
...outbreak of World War I he joined the Naval Division, and thinking that he would probably get killed, married Gwen Quilter. This, he reasoned, gave him as much happiness as he deserved, and her a reasonable chance of escape. And he very nearly did get killed in Gallipoli by the worst of deaths, dysentery. He recorded this campaign in his lightest verse, laffing at his miseries and terrors...