Prime Minister Clemenceau, quoted by Walter Reid in Five Days From Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War (2017), p. 174
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l'homme d'action par excellence du cabinet anglais (the outstanding man of drive in the British cabinet).
— Prime Minister Clemenceau
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About Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner KG GCB GCMG PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator.
About Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner KG GCB GCMG PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator.
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