July 28

On the 28th in 1958, George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe made his maiden speech in Great Britain’s House of Lords concerning the British problems in Iraq. In the speech, he told those in attendance that “…like all your Lordships, I felt, and feel, a deep sense of shock, indeed revulsion, at the brutal butchery…”
Jellicoe seems to have had a rather refreshing character for a politician. As a rule, not to say that politicians follow many rules, groups of politicians tend to adopt a stoicism that borders on pathological. Jellicoe, according to someone who knew him, on the other hand, tends to “wear his weaknesses on his sleeve. He is too frank. I suppose though, that is no bad thing. He was not flamboyant but he was a hedonist. He is the sort of non-pompous person who does not try to hide his weaknesses”

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