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Updated: June 19, 2025
The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of The Nation for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of Europe.
His adroit use of this filled H. W. Massingham, the editor of the Daily News, with enthusiasm. Nothing in parliamentary tactics, he declared, since Mr. Gladstone died, had been so clever. He proclaimed that Churchill would be Premier. John Dillon, the Nationalist leader, said he never before had seen a young man, by means of his maiden effort, spring into the front rank of parliamentary speakers.
After regarding him for a moment fixedly, he demanded "Art thou Jocelyn Mounchensey?" The young man, equally surprised, replied in the affirmative. "The son of Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey, of Massingham, in Norfolk?" inquired the Puritan. "The same," Jocelyn answered.
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