. The Great war. rdinary supply,involving a vote of £100,000,000. Prime Minister Asquith opens the dis-cussion, August 6th. Lord Kitchener as Minister of War, a non-politicalmember of the cabinet. The debate on supply; Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Dick-inson, and other speakers. Resolution for increasing the army. Theprompt adoption of the necessary measures. The British Cabinet which was in office in 1914 not onlyrendered itself conspicuous by its undeniable capacity dis-played in the face of the unprecedented problems imposedby the war, but it holds a unique position among Britishministries in that it
. The Great war. rdinary supply,involving a vote of £100,000,000. Prime Minister Asquith opens the dis-cussion, August 6th. Lord Kitchener as Minister of War, a non-politicalmember of the cabinet. The debate on supply; Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Dick-inson, and other speakers. Resolution for increasing the army. Theprompt adoption of the necessary measures. The British Cabinet which was in office in 1914 not onlyrendered itself conspicuous by its undeniable capacity dis-played in the face of the unprecedented problems imposedby the war, but it holds a unique position among Britishministries in that its record combines the accomplishmentof a series of remarkable domestic reforms with the vigor-ous prosecution of warlike operations abroad on a scaleunparalleled for Great Britain. It demonstrated for thefirst time in generations the fact that a Liberal administra-tion did not necessarily involve a weak or capricious foreignpolicy. Its leading members met the test of adaptability132 GEORGE VKING OF GREAT BRITAIN. Moral Impulses in the United Kingdom 133 to the requirements of a very unusual situation when thenation was unexpectedly drawn into the vortex of a giganticstruggle. The really dominating personalities in the cabinet at theoutset of the war were four in number: the Prime Ministerand First Lord of the Treasury, the Right HonorableHerbert Henry Asquith; the Secretary of State for ForeignAffairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Chancellor of the Exchequer,the Right Honorable David Lloyd George; and the FirstLord of the Admiralty, the Right Honorable WinstonLeonard Spencer Churchill. Mr. Asquith and Sir EdwardGrey are sedate in appearance and indifferent to popularity,while Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill possess a moreardent temperament, which instinctively finds expressionin a genial, expansive manner, appealing strongly to popularenthusiasm. Mr. Asquith was born September 12, 1852. Like SirEdward Grey, he was a Balliol College man at entered the House of Commons in 1
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