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...Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...
...guns were massed on long, sweeping bows, and could not be trained astern. Navymen liked to believe that they were designed on the proud premise that a British battleship would never turn tail. Now that they were obsolete, economy dictated the ships' retirement. The five veterans, said Viscount Hall, "would be of very little value in any future...
...There is danger, too," warned the full-wigged Lord Chancellor, lantern-jawed Viscount Jowitt, "in too strict reliance on the words of the Prayer Book. . . . It seems to me that the essence of the view of Christian marriage is that any children born into a family should be brought up and nurtured in the Christian faith. That is 'not the same thing as saying that a marriage is not consummated unless children are procreated, or that procreation is the principal end of marriage...
...England's churchmen were in no joking mood. Last fortnight the Anglican diocesan bishops met privately with the Archbishop of Canterbury to consider whether Viscount Jowitt and the noble Lords had in truth rendered an un-Christian decision, and if so, what to do about...
...Damson . . . That was time enough for Tory leaders to recognize an unimaginative "safe" man. In 1922 Prime Minister Bonar Law put Stanley Baldwin in his Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Bonar Law resigned, there seemed to be no one in the Tory party to replace him except Viscount Curzon. Since Curzon was in the House of Lords (and therefore unable to face the growing Labor opposition in the House of Commons), the prime ministry went to Baldwin. "But," cried out Curzon, "[Baldwin] is a man ... of the utmost insignificance!" A Mayfair hostess asked: "Is the new Prime Minister...