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Captain Fitzroy was an aristocrat who faithfully followed the path of an upperclass son in politics. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he entered the House as Conservative Member for South Northamptonshire in 1900. He was wounded at Ypres in 1914, elected Speaker in 1928. The Scotsman justly called him: "An impartial president over debate, the guardian of the privileges of the House, the protector of minorities, and the defender of freedom of speech." Death came at 73, in the severely blitzed 50-room Speaker's House, directly beneath...
...past calls McNaughton. He remembers Ypres, where he was wounded in 1915, and Soissons, where he was wounded in 1918. He remembers the many battlefields, the towns, trenches and hills that seemed so important then, where the Canadians of 1914-18 left their dead...
...wounded by other weapons, 8,200,000 died.) And gas is quick and effective, they argue. War's objective is to immobilize the enemy and make him sue for peace. What quicker agent than gas? Some military observers believe the Germans could have won World War I at Ypres on April 22, 1915, when they first introduced gas in large-scale modern combat, when the stunned British and French Colonial troops choked, fell and fled as clouds of chlorine boiled into their trenches. But the Germans did not or could not follow up their first quick triumph. Every military...
...part is to gain time for great reinforcements. .. . We are in a similar position to the original British Expeditionary Force which stopped the Germans and saved Europe in the first Battle of Ypres [on Nov. 9, 1914]. We must be worthy successors to them and save Asia by fighting these Japanese...
...Edgewood's big classrooms, in the fields of the reservation, they will study for seven weeks the weapon that Germany first effectively introduced to modern warfare on April 22, 1915, when she turned chlorine loose on unprepared British troops at Ypres. In World War II Germany has so far used no gas, possibly because of its effect on U. S. public opinion, but her gas factories are reported working full and overtime. There is no documented proof that gas has been used in world warfare since Italian troops spewed it against barefooted Ethiopian warriors in 1936 (reported fatalities about...