Word: jutland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winston Churchill against Lord Alfred Douglas, second son of the eighth Marquis of Queensberry, for publishing in a paper called Plain English libelous statements. The defendant alleged that Mr. Churchill had plotted with the late Sir Ernest Cassel to publish a false report of the Battle of Jutland, with the object of creating a panic on the neutral stock exchanges in order to sell German stocks at a high price and buy British stocks at a depreciated value...
Lord Alfred published in a pamphlet an article entitled: The Murder of Lord Kitchener and the Truth About the Battle of Jutland and the Jews. An excerpt from this document reads: "I made a definite charge against Winston Churchill in Plain English, a newspaper now defunct. I stated that a large sum of money was given him by the late Sir Ernest Cassel after he had issued what is admittedly a false report of the Battle of Jutland...
...Battle of Jutland occurred on May 31, 1916. Mr. Churchill was First Lord from...
...compared with the leading post-Jutland ships of other nations, the Mutzu (and her sister ship, the Nageto) of Japan and the British battle cruiser Hood, the Colorado (and her sister ships) are slightly inferior...
...Strength. With her sister ships, the Maryland (in commission for some time) and the West Virginia (to be commissioned about December 1), the Colorado ranks as the most formidable of our fleet units. These three ships are our only first line vessels built since the Battle of Jutland, and embody all that was there learned of naval architecture...