George, David Lloyd

Lloyd George, David, Parliamentary Archives, London... 

Lloyd George, David, War Memoirs, 6 vols., London Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1933-6. 

Bentley B. Gilbert, David Lloyd George a Political Life Organizer of Victory 1912-1916 (London B.T. Batsford, 1992), p. 386. 

French, British Economic and Strategic Planning, pp.51, 64, 110-13, 126-32 David French, British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (London Allen and Unwin, 1986), pp. 116-22, 129-31 Gilbert, David Lloyd George, 1912-1916, pp. 226-30. 

In Britain, the manufacture of cordite had commenced in 1889 in the royal gunpowder factory at Waltham Abbey. The acetone, which was critical to the process, was made from the distillate collected from wood that was heated to a high temperature. The best wood for this purpose came from the forests of continental Europe, and it was therefore unavailable to the British after the start of World War i. But in 1915 a chance meeting solved this problem. C.P. Scott of The Manchester Guardian introduced David Lloyd George, the Minister of Munitions, to one Chaim Weizmann. 

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