He then showed it to Lord Fisher, then First Sea Lord. Typical of Churchill’s writing practice, he dictated the communiqué to an Admiralty stenographer. Hogg: “Did you know anything about it until it appeared in the Press?”Ĭhurchill then described how, at government request, he had come to write his more favorable “appreciation” of Jutland. Hogg: “Were you consulted as to its issue?” Hogg: “Did you know anything about the communiqué of June 3rd before it was issued?” This caused the drop in the market for stock of British companies for which Douglas had blamed Churchill. Churchill was asked about the first government communiqué about the Battle of Jutland. The prosecutor was the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Douglas’s counsel, Cecil Hayes, a junior barrister, was much more likely than his more experienced predecessor, Comyns Carr, to follow his client’s precise instructions on questions for “dear Winston.” ( Concluded from Part 1.)Ĭhurchill was the second witness for the prosecution. Lord Alfred Douglas thought he had Winston Churchill just where he wanted him-in the witness box, undergoing cross-examination. Here he presides over the signing of the Polish-Soviet agreement with Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski and Russian Ambassador to London Ivan Maisky, 30 July 1941-see our review of the Maisky Diaries at bit.ly/3gP3RwF. Their music to the moon.“The imminent shadow of the ‘Winston touch.’” As Lord Alfred Douglas published his sonnet to his old enemy, Churchill cemented Britain’s first wartime alliances. Of birds at noon-day, and no soft throats yield I know a green grass path that leaves the field, This is the joy that fills a cloudy night Of every flower that blows in every Spring, To fight with form, to wrestle and to rage, To eat sweet honey and to taste black gall, Wherein to keep wild thoughts like birds in thrall To find some cloistered place, some hermitage Out of forgotten depths, they rise and shine Hide in the soul their constant quenchless light, Think how the hidden things that poets see More than the languors of soft lute-playing. Of silver flutes and mouths made round to sing.Īlong the wall red roses climb and cling,Īnd oh! my prince, lift up thy countenance,įor there be thoughts like roses that entrance What shall we do, my soul, to please the King? Men creep like thoughts.The lamps are like pale flowers. I think they move! I hear her panting breath.Īnd that's her head where the tiara rests.Īnd in her brain, through lanes as dark as death, Pricked out with lamps they stand like huge black towers. That's the great town at night: I see her breasts, With thousands of bold eyes to heaven, and dares See! that huge circle like a necklace, stares Once, and once only, might have stood with these. When you met mercy's voice with frowns or jeers.Īnd did you ask who signed the plea with you?įools! It was signed already with the sign That you yourselves, not he, were pitiable #Lord alfred douglas fullYou that were full of fears,Īnd mean self-love, shall live to know full well Of song and art is powerless as the tears Opened for Tracian Orpheus, now the spell Zola, Copee, Sardou and others) who refused to compromise their spotless reputations or imperil their literary exclusiveness by signing a merciful petition in favour of Oscar Wilde.Ĭan open English prisons. "Not all the singers of a thousand years" Sonnet, dedicated to those French men of letters (Messrs. (Compare Keats's sonnet When I Have Fears.) Till mean things put on beauty like a dressĪnd all the world was an enchanted place.Īnd then methought outside a fast locked gateĪnd voiceless thoughts like murdered singing birds. I heard his golden voice and marked him trace I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face "Not all the singers of a thousand years".(From Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer.) The City of the Soul (1899) and Sonnets (1900) contain his most graceful writing. One of the minor poets of "the eighteen-nineties," several of his poems rise above his own affectations and the end-of-the-century decadence. He was the editor of The Academy from 1907 to 1910 and was at one time the intimate friend of Oscar Wilde. Lord Alfred Douglas was born in 1870 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945)
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