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When Violet Asquith, aboard the Enchantress in 1912 [on a Bonham-Carter/Asquith/Churchill family cruise] looked out at the lovely Mediterranean coastline and exclaimed, "How perfect", [Churchill] replied, "Yes- range perfect, visibility perfect-If we had got some six inch guns on board how easily we could bombard..."

(D. Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace (2003), chapter 1)