21 MARCH 1914, page 2

In The House Of Commons On Wednesday Mr. Aubrey Herbert

moved a resolution in regard to our position in the Mediterranean. Without a strong Fleet we could not have a strong policy. The main portion of Sir Edward Grey's reply was in......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday The Bill Establishing

a system of Imperial naturalization on a uniform basis was read In the House of Lords on Tuesday the Bill establishing a system of Imperial naturalization on a uniform basis was......

In The Debate On The Navy Estimates On Wednesday The

question of democratizing the selection of officers was raised by Mr. Hugh Edwards. He appealed to the Admiralty to do more for poor boys by establishing bursaries at Osborne......

In 1912, Said Mr. Churchill, The Government Had...

whole question of the Mediterranean, and had decided that we must remain "the independent guardian of our own important and long-established interests." Accordingly the......

During The Week The House Of Lords Has Discussed At

length the Bill introduced by Lord Willoughby de Broke authorizing the raising by compulsion from among the well- to-do classes of a body to be called the Imperial Force. In the......

Lord Midleton, Who Always Brings Weight And Good Sense Into

a debate, endorsed Lord Cromer's appeal, which, he rightly said, went home to the House more than any made in the course of the discussion. It was admitted by all classes that......

Other Notable Speeches In The Debate Were Those By Lord

Sydenham, Lord Roberts, and Lord Midleton. Lord Sydenhaan, though opposed to the policy of the National Service League, advocated compulsory universal training for boys. Lord......

Lord Cromer Ended His Speech By A Statement Which Was,

and no doubt was desired by him to be, more far-reaching even than the subject of the debate. He insisted on the extreme importance at this moment of unity in the Unionist......

The Country, Continued Mr. Churchill, Was Now In The Third

year of the aeries, and the Admiralty believed that the four ships already foreshadowed would be enough. We may point out here that the four ships of the present programme were......