The Liberal Party split in 1916 over how to conduct the war "with Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith being replaced with fellow Liberal David Lloyd George who remained afterwards in a coalition made up of Liberals and Conservatives. ... Asquith's followers become known as Independent Liberals and Lloyd George's Coalition Liberals and then in 1922 as National Liberals "as Lloyd George sets up a rival organization. ... Independent Liberals never forgave Lloyd George for his part in this process. ... Many Liberal leaders including Chief of Party Headquarters Herbert Gl...

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The CPI was headed by George Creel and was used to distribute posters and pamphlets discussing the reasons America had gone to war. ... Herbert Hoover headed the new Food Administration and appealed to the "spirit of self sacrifice" by convincing people to save food by observing "meatless" and "wheatless" days. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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