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Probably it will be a long time before the world has any accurate, adequate idea of the terrible disaster that overtook British prestige and allied troops in their year's attempt to force the Strait. Official figures announced by Premier Asquith speak of more than 100,000 troops killed, wounded, or missing, but these total figures took account of the sick, who reached an extraordinary high total.
As the evil increases the remedy diminishes, and you have only to force up taxation sufficiently high to extinguish the remedy altogether." Mr. Asquith said "A more confused and illogical condition of things it is impossible to imagine.
Premier Asquith continued: "We understand that Belgium categorically refused to assent to a flagrant violation of the law of nations.
He was further described as ungentlemanly by a brace of spinsters who had been within earshot on the veranda the morning he had abused the Asquith roads, but their evidence was not looked upon as damning. That Mr. Cooke would appear at the cotillon never entered any one's head. Thus it was, for a fortnight, Mr. Cooke maintained a most rigid seclusion.
In a word, we Unionist Free Traders could not form a whole-hearted alliance with either of the two old parties. We detested the Irish policy followed by Mr. Asquith, its truckling to the Nationalists and its apparent determination to shed the blood of the people of Ulster, if that was necessary to force them under a Dublin Parliament.
She had told him, then, of my predicament. And she did not meet my eye. He began to whittle again, and remarked: "It is only seventeen miles or so across these hills to Far Harbor, old chap, and you can get a train there for Asquith." "Just as you choose," said I, shortly. With that I started off to gain the top of the promontory in order to watch the chase.
It is coming as fast as human nature and the nature of the Parliamentary machine will allow. To try to terrorize Mr. Asquith into bringing in a Government measure is to credit him with a wisdom and a nobility almost divine. No man is great enough to put himself in the right by admitting he was wrong.
In the winter of 1915 Great Britain was preparing for the naval attack on the Dardanelles, and its success was regarded as inevitable. In March of 1915 he was visiting the Prime Minister at Walmer Castle; one afternoon Mr. Asquith took him aside, informed him of the Dardanelles preparations and declared that the Allies would have possession of Constantinople in two weeks.
"We drove down to bring you back to luncheon," she said. I thanked her and accepted. She was curious to hear about Asquith and its people, and I told her all I knew. "I should like to meet some of them," she explained, "for we intend having a cotillon at Mohair, a kind of house-warming, you know. A party of Mr.
Asquith, the English Prime Minister, at once made the statement that the letter was a "purely private communication, couched in an entirely friendly spirit," that it had not been laid before the Cabinet, and that the latter had come to a decision about the Estimates before the letter arrived.
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