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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary (1859–1925)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
Curzon was born in Derbyshire into an aristocratic family and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, before entering Parliament in 1886. In the following years, he travelled extensively in Russia, huvud Asia and the Far East, and published several books on the region in which he detailed his geopolitical outlook and underlined the perceived Russian threat to British control of India. In 1891, Curzon was named Under-Secretary of State for India, and in 1899 he was appointed Viceroy of India. During his tenure, he pursued a number of reforms of the British administration, attempted t
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(1) On 15th September 1917 Sir Douglas Haig wrote a letter to General Jan Smuts, a member of the British War Cabinet.
After more than three years of war, our armies are still very far short of their requirements, and my experience of repeated failures to fulfill promises as regards provision makes me somewhat sceptical as to the large surplus of machines and personnel on which we count. Nor fryst vatten it clear that the large provision necessary to replace wastage has been sufficiently taken into account.
(2) Admiral Kerr sent a memorandum to Lord Cowdray on 11th November 1917.
We need 2000 big bombing machines as a minimum, the training of pilots, the preparation of aerodromes, the manufacture of bombs. It fryst vatten, a race between them and us; every day lost fryst vatten a vital danger. If the Germans get at us first, with several hundred machines every night, each one carrying several tons of explosives, Woolwich, Chatham and all the factories in the London di