The Case Against The Lloyd George Coalition

Author : Pseud. Politicus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483020870
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Party Not Faction written by Pseud. Politicus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Party Not Faction: The Necessity for National Government, the Need for Coalition The first Coalition was' formed not because the old subjects-of quarrel were emerging, but because it was thought that a combination of parties would give more drive to the conduct of the war. It was all done in the cause of efficiency and national unity, and Mr. Asquith, then Prime Minister, not only consented to the Coalition, but professed eagerness for its formation. It was on my advice, he said at Glasgow just before the Armistice, that, a little more than three years ago, a Coalition Government was formed. I think it was good advice. The occasion of the formation of the First Coalition was the discovery that the war was likely to last a long time, and wouldbe a war fought not only by soldiers but by the workmen of the country. It was Mr. Lloyd George who first grasped, the principle which, though obvious enough now, was novel to our countrymen then, that in such a war there were no civilians but only two kinds of belligerents, industrial and military. It was little more than an incident in this portentous discovery that the British High Command, still absurdly sanguine of the early termination of the war, chose to throw on an insufficient supply of high explosive shells the blame for the failure of our premature attempts to break through the German lines of 1915 The first Coalition arose out of the perception of the truth that in such a war there could be no Spectators but all must be workers, just as the present Coalition rests on the conviction that peace after such a cataclysm demands u'nited effort like the war, and that the problems of peace, though different in kind, are as difficult and as dangerous as those of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.