In writing this chapter I have before me two photographs, the first showing King George Vth with the Czar of Russia in 1913. The Czar was King George’s cousin. The second photograph shows King George Vth with the Kaiser of Germany, also taken in 1913. And the Kaiser was also his cousin. In that year the King was not to know the fate that would overtake his family and Europe in just a short while. [Read more…]
Archives for September 2001
22. The Angels of Mons and the White Cavalry. 1914 – 1918
The British Government never anticipated the conflict of the first world war to become anything but a short conflict. The Foreign Secretary at the time, Sir Edward Grey, who in his leisure hours was an ornithologist and fisherman, had sent the Government’s ultimatum to Germany, demanding an end to the violation of neutral Belgian territory. The ultimatum expired on August 4th. On August 3rd he reminded the House of Commons of Britain’s obligations to France and Belgium, and said, “If we are engaged in war we shall suffer but little more than if we stand aside.” [Read more…]
21. Suffragettes and Women’s Liberation
Social evils have always existed in the world, and sincere and sensitive people have always tried to do what they can to relieve the lot of those who, for one reason of another, have been downtrodden, and at the butt end of injustice. Dickens (1812-1870) depictedmany such scenes in England in his lifetime, scenes which were later picked up by the communist rulers in Russia to use as evidence against our form of society. [Read more…]
20. The loss of the Airship R101
On October 4th, 1930, the pride of British aeronautical engineering, the Airship R101, left England on its maiden journey, a non-stop flight to India. The weather was far from good, and as the R101 crossed the Channel she was tossed and buffeted by ever stronger gusts of wind. Visibility was reduced to nil, and the airship, travelling at about 1000 feet bucked in unintentional swoops, losing 200 – 300 feet at a time. The crew were hardly able to correct these traumatic movements. And so it was that at precisely 2.05 a.m. the gigantic ship crashed at the edge of a wood near Beauvais in Northern France, and burst into flames. [Read more…]
19. The loss of the Titanic, 1912
Morgan Robertson was born in 1861. His father was a ship’s captain on the Great Lakes in America. He followed his father in becoming a seaman, and spent six years at sea. After this he quit seafaring and went to New York and studied to become a jeweller. At 33 years of age he married. But his business was not altogether a success, and this together with a frail wife, and his own failing eyesight, led him to sell up. He desperately sought a new means of making a livelihood. [Read more…]
18. Russia, Lenin, and Aristocoli’s prophecy to Valentina
Many different influences were beginning to affect the world in the latter years of the 19th century. Truly there was a great wind of change. It was as though “the four winds of heaven were striving on the great sea”, and certainly some pretty nasty beasts were arising out of the turbulent waters. Whether they were the fulfilment of Daniel’s visions and prophecies, only time will tell, because there is no concensus of opinion amongst Biblical scholars as to the interpretation of Daniel’s vision. However, in this historical survey it has been our intention to introduce factors which don’t normally appear in the history books, and so we continue that process, this time within that great eastern country of Russia. First of all, a little background. [Read more…]
17. Dr. Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Congress
THE OBSERVER newspaper, on June 28th 1896, had some important news to give its readers. It concerned the possibility of the Jews returning to their original land ofPalestine. And because of the sensation caused, the matter was taken up by THE JEWISH CHRONICLE on July 3rd, and made the leading article in that paper. Because of the importance of this, (even after such a long time) we now reprint this article in full. [Read more…]