 In my opinion, whatever changes are made in the composition or functions of the War Committee the Prime Minister must be its Chairman. He cannot be relegated to the position of an arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 1481919Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1922 - 474 pages
...the composition and functions of the War Committee,' he wrote to his ambitious subordinate on Dec. 1, 'the Prime Minister must be its chairman. He cannot...arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet.' This was good constitutional doctrine ; but it was not the doctrine of the Minister of Munitions or... | |
 | Robert Eccleshall, Graham S. Walker - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 458 pages
...was not unsympathetic to this but he was adamant that it must be chaired by the prime minister who 'cannot be relegated to the position of an arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet' (Jenkins 1964: 430). After some attempts at accommodation, Asquith resigned, possibly with the intention... | |
 | William Simpson - History - 2005 - 368 pages
...specific proposals. In my opinion, whatever changes are made in the composition or functions of the Committee the Prime Minister must be its Chairman....arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet . . . Morgan, The Age of Lloyd George, p. 170 SOURCE 28 Lloyd George writes to Bonar Law, 2 December... | |
 | Geoffrey Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 324 pages
...George, Carson and Bonar Law.15 Asquith rejected the proposals, saying that the Prime Minister could not be relegated to the position of 'an arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet'.16 Lloyd George felt that the initiative must now lie with Bonar Law. He sent Asquith's letter... | |
 | Stephen Bates - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 180 pages
...defined and more effectively asserted. However he added: In my opinion, whatever changes are made ... the Prime Minister must be its chairman. He cannot...position of an arbiter in the background or a referee in Cabinet}1 While the plotters schemed over their next move - Lloyd George desperate to gain Bonar... | |
 | 1945 Lees Knowles lectures - Great Britain - 1945 - 104 pages
...undertake the day-to-day direction of the war. That scheme broke down owing to Mr Asquith's insistence that whatever changes are made in the composition or functions...arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet.* The system that Mr Asquith rejected had been tried in the Newcastle-Pitt administration of 1757, of... | |
 | English literature - 1922 - 532 pages
...the composition and functions of the War Committee,' he wrote to his ambitious subordinate on Dec. 1, 'the Prime Minister must be its chairman. He cannot...arbiter in the background or a referee to the Cabinet." This was good constitutional doctrine ; but it was not the doctrine of the Minister of Munitions or... | |
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