What War was raging when H.H. Asquith was in office?
The Promise (2010 play):  It is set early in World War I and deals with the lead-up to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, via the relationship between Herbert Samuel, Edwin Samuel Montagu and H. H. Asquith's confidante Venetia Stanley. H. H. Asquith:  In August 1914, Asquith took the United Kingdom into the First World War, but resigned amid political conflict in December 1916 and was succeeded by his War Secretary David Lloyd George.
First World War