Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan QC DL (20 March 1876 – 8 April 1955) was a British lawyer with expertise in constitutional law.
[7] Morgan concluded: I have in front of me a copy of the Neue Illustrierte Zeitung of 12 September 1935, saluting with a glowing eulogy that Scharnhorst of the Treaty of Versailles, Gen. von Seeckt...for having so successfully obstructed the attempts of the Allied Control Commission to disarm Germany during the years 1920–1926 that he had thereby "prepared the way" (vorbereitet) for Hitler's rapid restoration of the military might of Germany in all its menace.
During the "close season" of German rearmament which followed on the withdrawal of the Control Commission Mr. Lloyd George persisted in proclaiming to the world the innocuous character of Germany's "tiny army", as he chose to call it, and insisted that the only menace to the peace of Europe was the defensive measures which, happily for him and for us, the French were taking to meet the covert revival of German militarism.
[8] Whilst serving in the military, Morgan was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law at University College London in 1915; Thomas Baty deputised for him until he retired from the army in 1923 and he taught until 1941.
[1] Morgan claimed that he coined the famous phrase: "Irish history is a thing for Irishmen to forget and for Englishmen to remember"—which he said was later used without acknowledgement by Horace Plunkett.