H. H. Asquith - Cabinet Quotes

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He is a Chimborazo or Everest among the sandhills of the Baldwin Cabinet.

Of Winston Churchill

H. H. Asquith

The War Office kept three sets of figures:

one to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

H. H. Asquith

The value of the Cabinet system is often conspicuously illustrated in the sphere of Foreign Policy. The heavy and always increasing pressure of departmental duties makes it impossible for the majority of Ministers to follow from the study of telegrams and despatches the vast variety of complicated matters which are being handled day by day at the Foreign Office.

H. H. Asquith