[David Lloyd George during the Chanak crisis] had challenged the armed might and the genius of Kemal with a few battalions—and won. It was the last occasion on which Great Britain stood up to a potential aggressor before the outbreak of the second World War.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[David Lloyd George during the Chanak crisis] had challenged the armed might and the genius of Kemal with a few battalions—and won. It was the last occasion on which Great Britain stood up to a potential aggressor before the outbreak of the second World War." in the context of "Robert Boothby, I Fight to Live (1947), p. 28" to mean that wisdom is timeless.