“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.”

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter VIII.
Early career years (1898–1929)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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