MR. CHURCHILL, THE ADMIRALTY, AND THE SELF GOVERNING DOMINIONS

A Short Examination of Admiralty Intervention in the Sphere of Imperial Politics. With a foreword by H.W. Massingham.

49 pages, original printed light card wrappers with a new matching paper spine. Library numbers in ink at the top of the front cover, contents very good.

Printed and Published by the National Press Agency Limited, London, no date (circa 1912)

Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. The pamphlet is critical of the reforms he introduced. “The third chapter records a sharp and sudden reversion, under Mr Churchill’s guidance, to the almost obsolete policy of contributions. The results of this throw-back to conservatism and centralization are before the world. It has dislocated Canadian politics, reintroduced racial differences, and made a British Liberal Government appear as a partisan of one conception of Colonial responsibilities, which Canadian Liberalism repudiates….” “Incidentally, it has given fresh vitality to our dying differences with Germany; but this, we may well hope, is an incidental and passing misfortune.”