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VOLUME XIX, No. 278.
CIVILIAN HEAD
OF ENCLANQ'S
VAST NAVY
Should Great Britain Win Out
in the Great Conflict, a New
Prime Minister May Come.
London.—Out of the great war, should
Great Britain win out, may come a new
prime minister. Winston Spencer
Churchill, first lord of the British ad
miralty is ambitious to head the gov
ernment. If England’s navy is victori
ous over the Germans in this war,
Churchill might well become a popular
hero, the last boost needed to lift him
over the barrier and into the prime min
istry.
When the British fleet moved into
battle the other day and sunk several
German fighting craft off Heligoland, its
efficiency was the expression of a very
real American contribution to Great
Britain. For it has been re-created and
perfected into its present shape by a
man of genius whose t>lood is an Am
erican as it is English.
Churchill.
Winston Spencer Churchill is the son
of Jennie Jerome, of New York, who
first married Lord Randolph Churchill
and subsequently married and then di
vorced George Cornwallis-West. There
have been many American brides in the
family of the Dukes of Malborough to
whom the Churchills are related. Not
the least of these in beauty and brains
is Winston Churchill's mother. She
created a veritable sensation with her
good looks and personal harm. Imme
diately she took a premier place in so
ciety, which unfortunately her second
marriage and its disasters did not main
tain. But she did much to advance the
political prestige of Lord Randolph
Churchill and her work then has borne
fruit in the achievements of her son.
Only forty years old, Winston Spencer
Churchiil already has an enviable rec
ord, equalled by that of few Englishmen.
He has been througli five wars, writ
ten seven books and now, still young is
a political leader and at the head of the
British navy in time of war, which cir
cumstances ought to enable him to ob
tain any political preferment on which
lie may set his mind, provided the Eng
lish forces are successful.
Coincidence.
It is a singular coincidence that the
two men now at the head of the Brit
ish war office and admiralty were once
Mier enemies In the Soudan. Lord
./fdhener of Khartoum, secretary of
stifte for war incurred the disapproval
of Winston Churchill when the younger
man was a war correspondent. Churchill
wrote such a bitten- criticism of Kitche
ner for the Graphic, because the com
mander razed a certain tomb, that the
mattes was taken up in the house of
commons. Kitchener for years did not
forgive Churchill, but now that they
are in such co-re’ated responsible posi
tions and ChuTchill has laid down the
pen. Kitchener probably has burled the
hatcher.
The key to Churchill’s character Is
that he is a soldier. He is a natural
born fighting man. He is a true
Churchill, very different from his cousin
the present Duke of Marlborough, whose
lieir to the dukedom he was until the
birth of the two sons to the present
Duchess still remembered as Consuelo
Vanderbilt of New York.
Aside from their ancient antipathy, it
is s strange thing that Kitchener should
be in the war office and Churchill in
the admiralty at a time when England
is at war. It Is curious because Eng
land was far more likely to have had a
lawyer presiding over the army and a
professor at the head of the navy d&
partment. For England was never ready
with her fighting machines at the be
ginning of a war in all her history.
Phe would always prefer to blunder
through than to plan ahead. But this
time both her army and her fleet were
ready, both under the direction of the
best fighting men in the empire.
Three and One-half Year*.
Churchill has been at the admiralty
for about three and a half years, and
the other day bis old enemy, Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford walked across the
floor of the house of commons and shook
hands with him. saying he was proud of
Churchill's work and wanted their feud
dead. The Churchill-Beresford quarrel
was a long one, growing out of differ
ences over naval policies. It waxed bit
ter because Churchill always got the
better of Beresford on the floor of the
commons, thereby getting Beresford
laughed at.
During his long quarrel with Beres
ford, himself a picturesque fighting fig
ure, Lord Charles and he had many an
assault in debate, but it was an occa
sion early this year that caused Beres
ford to retire, a very battered wreck.
Among other things, Churchill said:
"The: noble lord Is one of those fig
ures of whom it might be said that
when he rises to speak, he doesn’t know
what he is going to say, while he is
speaking lie does not know what he Is
saying and when he Sits down he does
not know what he has said.”
Courage of High Type.
Churchill's physical courage Is of a
high type. His most famous battle was
at Omdurman. where he took part in the
famous cavalry charge, although nomi
nally only a correspondent. During the
Boer <Par he fought when an armored
train was captured, leading a folton
hope again and again after all the offi
cers were killed, until at last some one
without authority hoal'ed the white slug
He was captured by the Boers but es
caped In remarkable fashion, to take
his chances In a hostile country of
reaching the British troops. He suc
ceeded and fought again, although there
was a twice on his head for recapture,
and a firing squad for his punishment.
He has always struggled since the be
ginning pf his career, as he is a msn
who has raised, in his march to suc
cess, a very full crop of enemies. When
he began hie career In the army he was
so hated that practically he had to re
sign The fact was that he knew too
much for his toother officers to appre
ciate and had the habit, while only a
Junior subaltern of telilng everybody,
from the colonel down, how things in
the regiment should be run. For this
bis associates dubbed him that "Blen
heim pup." He has never been popular
personally, by reason, of his uncertain
temper and his austerely suptolor bear
ing toward his fellows when In close
lontact with them That has perhaps
reated it impression that he will
be never minister But . of lat# he
lias softened and mellowed and has be
gun to make friends. It requires no
1 road stretch of the Imagination to see
-Mt the war crisis may give him that
port unity to become a popular idol
A t will win over those who have op
jr jd urn advaucemuit.
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