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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Liberal Government and Naval Policy.
A Speech delivered by … First Lord of the Admiralty, in Introducing the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons, on March 18th, 1912.
Publisher: The Liberal Publication Department, 1912
Stock code: 73421
Price: £295 Currency Conversion
First edition, this copy "rubber hand-stamped '15' in the upper right-hand corner of the cover," and therefore one of those disbound from the collections bound up as Pamphlets and Leaflets for 1912 (Cohen). In early March, Churchill had circulated to the Cabinet and to the King a memorandum "in which he stated bluntly the full implications of the German Navy Law, 'which practically amounted to putting about four-fifths of the German Navy permanently on a war footing" (Churchill, WSC, II, p564). In introducing his first Naval Estimates as First Lord he responded to this raising of the stakes in the Naval Arms Race in terms described by Marder as "almost brutally clear and frank" (The Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, I). Following his performance in the House he was congratulated by Charles à Court Repington, the Times, military affairs correspondent, for his "masculine handling of our naval policy," and by Lord Esher, who exclaimed that in his thirty years of public life "no such speeches have been made as yours - so straight and so daringly truthful."
Octavo. Later red half calf on marbled boards, title gilt to the spine, original self-wraps bound in, bulked with blanks. Very good.
