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...Britain will be the calling of a world disarmament conference in which the German situation in all its kaleidoscopic hues will certainly be discussed. The proponents of this argument point to the fact that Secretary Hughes expressly stated in his note to British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon that, should the plans for the conference fail, the U. S. would "reserve decision" as to its course of action...
...Lord Alfred Douglas, a son of the late Marquis of Queensberry, was held in bail at the Bow Street Court, London, on a charge of having maliciously and unlawfully published a defamatory libel on the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill...
...criticism that naturally suggests itself is that Mr. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was apt to think himself First Lord of Omniscience; for he consistently proves that he was right and the other fellow wrong. This is more apparent than real, however; and, in any case the ex-First Lord never fails to make out for himself what seems an incontrovertible case. What Mr. Churchill really did fail in was underestimating the strength of the " red tape " which bound him so securely in his dealings with the Admiralty Board and the War Office. It is apparent that...
Among these many personal successes there must be some failures; but few have been as pitiable as that of General Erich Ludendorff, once high commander of the German armies of the West. The all-mightiness of the lord of the German war machine clothed him in the trappings of royalty, and as a result every peasant has marked his fall. To become guilty of treason is in itself a severe punishment for an officer; but to be associated with the fiasco of a brewery revolt is tragic...
...review of the fleet was principally carried out for the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lieutenant Colonel Amery, an Oxford classical scholar, who has been connected with the Admiralty for more than two years, having been Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty since 1921 until he was appointed First Lord last year in Mr. Law's Administration. He was formerly on the London Times editorial staff and organ-ized The Times' war correspondence in the South African...