Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Sea raiders" on the German ships "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" and their eventual destruction during World War I; "A speech that prevented war" on [David] Lloyd George's speech at the Mansion House [London] on the Agadir [Morocco] Crisis in 1911; "Why I believe in government for the people" on totalitarianism in Germany, ranking the citizen higher than the state, and comparing the constitutions of Britain and the United States; "A People Transformed" on the changes to the nation on the outbreak of World War I, the collapse of empires, scientific developments, and the role of women; "When the Russians surprised the Germans" on the victories of General [Alexei] Brusilov which brought Romania into the war; "An Anglo-American union" and "The story of an Anglo-American romance" on the courtship between WSC's father and mother, quoting from Lord Randolph Churchill's letters.