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...foreign Ambassador, after Germany invaded Belgium and Britain declared war, the King exclaimed, "My God, Sir, what else could we do?" All fine theories spun to explain "the economic origin of the World War" have been wasted on His Majesty...
...Ambassador Page, fond though he was of England and her King, records that he "ventured to reply: 'The trouble with that joke, Sir, is that it's out of date...
...view of high policy within the Empire, a step thoroughly rash or irretrievable. For years after the World War, truculent Ireland was torn with the bloodiest of civil strife-1,200 outrages within a year and the shooting down in London itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd George discovered that in the Irish tongue there is no word for "Republic." Created was a Saorstat ("Free State") which Englishmen can think of as a "dominion" while Irishmen plume themselves on the dignity of President Eamon de Valera...
...fulcrum of social revolution. But next to the good humor and cooperativeness of the British public what was the chief force which caused Labor leaders to call off the strike? Being British, they were routed when the man whom they had heard was "the Empire's greatest lawyer," Sir John Simon, today Foreign Secretary, declared with cataclysmic calm that in his opinion the General Strike was illegal and the Crown could successfully prosecute...
...cargo cult thing" - but sees some prospect of an end to the no-go zone in Ona's apparent ceding of control to Musingku. "I think Ona's kingdom is shriveling up," he says. "The crowning was a bad move." P.N.G.'s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation as a "mockery of Bougainvillean traditions and customs...