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When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
...events which almost nobody noticed in the midst of all these were the birth in Braunau, Austria, of a boy-child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George...
Last week, he had broken all records for non-stop membership in Parliament,* but 76-year-old Lloyd George was still being criticized. Two things he still does magnificently: deliver orations and cultivate flowers. M. P.s now grumble because he always leaves the Commons immediately after his orations, never waiting to hear lesser orators express themselves. Amateur gardeners near his estate in Churt, Surrey, also grumble that his great fame, not his great flowers, takes so many flower show prizes away from others. But even these complaints are testimony to the fact that David Lloyd George has been...
...criticized for playing pacifistic, pro-Boer tunes. The wealthy aristocracy lambasted him, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his famous Budget of 1909 (which lambasted them) and for his bad taste in calling certain noblemen "Mr. Balfour's poodles." In 1912 he was censured in Parliament for a somewhat shady deal with a Marconi company. As Minister of Munitions in 1915 he was praised for his efficiency, but the next year when he was Prime Minister, he was scolded for meddling in military matters about which he knew very little. Ever since the War he has been...
...aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would go to the 51-year-old Milquetoast Minister of Transport, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, one uninhibited Laborite shouted the unexpressed sentiment of most of Parliament...