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Lord Chelmsford, Conservative First Lord of the Admiralty* in the Labor Cabinet, submitted Admiralty views on the matter and it leaked out that the First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord Beatty, had threatened to resign. Ominous growls were heard. Then the news was published that the Government intended to send one of the floating docks, surrendered by Germany, to Singapore instead of building a costly graving dock. It became evident that the Government had not dropped the Singapore Base project, which Labor had been so prominent in denouncing. It was likewise assumed that Britain's most popular Admiral, Lord Beatty...
...when he was rewarded for his services to the nation by an earldom, he chose with characteristic pluck the title of Earl Beatty of the North Sea...
...Admiralty is officially styled the Board of Admiralty and consists of the First Lord and four Sea Lords. The First Lord is often a civilian and he is chairman of the Board. The Sea Lords are always experienced Admirals...
From 1431 until 1912 Albania, a small country on the Adriatic Sea, was under Turkish rule. Two years later the Crown of Albania was offered to and accepted by the German Prince Wilhelm of Wied, but as soon as the War broke out (and before a Constitution had been framed) he fled back to Germany. Albania fell into a state of anarchy and was invaded by Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Austria. Her independence was again declared in 1917 and since then the Government has been in the hands of a Constituent Assembly and a Council of Regents, composed of representatives...
...Crown Princess Cecilia, wife of the ex-Crown Prince, was reported about to publish a book entitled Summer at the Sea Shore. It has nothing to do with royalty or politics. The foreword reads...