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Lloyd George strongly supported this, writing to Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, " the emphatic pledges given by all of us at the last general election to reduce the gigantic expenditure on armaments built up by the recklessness of our predecessors.
On the day after the declaration of war, the Home Secretary Reginald McKenna announced that " within the last twenty-four hours no fewer than twenty-one spies, or suspected spies, have been arrested in various places all over the country, chiefly in important military or naval centres, some of them long known to the authorities to be spies ", a reference to arrests directed by the service.
This prompted the Home Secretary, Reginald McKenna, to issue employees in state industries with lapel badges reading " King and Country " to indicate that they too were serving the war effort.
Reginald McKenna died in London on 6 September 1943, and was buried at Mells, Somerset ( the home of his old friend Sir John Horner ).
Reginald McKenna had recently been deprived of his position as First Lord of the Admiralty for refusing to provide military aid to the French, and he led the majority ( whose members included Loreburn, McKenna, Colonial Secretary Lewis Vernon Harcourt, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Jack Pease ) in " a strong line about Cabinet supremacy over all other bodies in the matter of sea and land defence ".
Shortly afterwards he became Naval Secretary to the First Lord and continued in that post under Lord Cawdor, Lord Tweedsmouth and Reginald McKenna.
Reginald McKenna ( First Lord of the Admiralty ) supported Admiral Wilson, but the Committee Secretary Maurice Hankey pointed out that the Army must draw up such plans and that the Army plans had already been approved by the CID.
* 1910-1917 Private Secretary to successive First Lords of the Admiralty ( Mr Reginald McKenna, Mr Winston Churchill, Mr Arthur Balfour, Sir Edward Carson, and Sir Eric Geddes,
Lady Lavery knew many famous figures of her era and corresponded with such notable figures as Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Owen Buckmaster, Tim Healy, Shane Leslie, Reginald McKenna, Jessie Louisa Rickard, George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson and W. B. Yeats.
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