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This evening we're looking back a century to the days of World War I with one of its chief actors.

We're reading The World Crisis by the Right Honorable Winston S Churchill,

First Lord of the Admiralty,

1911 to 1915, published in 1923 by the Macmillan Company of Canada Limited and Charles

Scribner's sons. Let's begin. Preface. From October 25, 1911 May 28th, 1915.

I was, in the words of the Royal Letters Patent

and Orders in Council, responsible to Crown and Parliament for all the business of the Admiralty.

This period comprised the final stage in the preparation against a war with Germany, the mobilization

and concentration of the fleet before the outbreak, the organization of the blockade, the Gathering in 1914 of the Imperial Forces from all over the world,

the clearance from the oceans. over the the reinforcement of the fleet by new construction in 1914 and 1915

the frustration and defeat of the first German submarine attack upon merchant shipping in 1915

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