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Premier "Succumbs at Last, but May ,
Crep Up as the Leader of.
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TVWID LLOYD GEORGE the man without a party!
" Only n few years-age; the man around whom thn most nntnennlstiV
f politlcal'-facttens in disrupted England rallied,' today, cast off and repu
diated iy uenservauvc, Lieeral and Laberite alike.
' Will Lloyd Geerge, quietly accept the verdict of his political opponents
'and retire from public life te the quietef his little Welsh village?
ftVf These who knew him best probably will scoff at the idea.
.Fer Lloyd Geerge has faced ether
crises in his tumultuous life; he has
found himself before this sur
rounded by snarling wolves of
hatred and bitterness. And he has
smiled into their teeth and made a
sudden adroit move, nnd ceme out
unscathed.
Lloyd Geerge has resigned new.
He and his Cabinet have stepped
out of office; but he has, in lesser
degree, used the same maneuver be
fore and returned triumphant.
It would net be altogether sur
prising te And that Lloyd Geerge
their countries through the dark
days of the World War and the
perhaps darker days of the se-called
peace. He alone was able te weather
the storms of pest-war discontent
and reconstruction, and he particu
larly was surrounded by new prob
lems almost as serious and difficult
as these of the international strug
gle. The "fall" of Lloyd Geerge has
been predicted for two years or
mere. Internal upheavals, foreign
complications, Irish revolution,
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was full of rumors of dissolution of
the Government and an appeal te
the country. . rt
The" premier was taken suddenly
ill with a cold. But he ignored the
pack at his heels and went fera va
cation into the Welsh hills.
Resignation Predictions '
Often Failed in Past
Hew. far wrong some of the poli
ticians were in doping out the Pre
mier's immediate future plans was
indicated in the statement made in
New Yerk at that time by a Londen
editor when he said the Premier
would resign within a week. r
But the Welsh Wizard kept- en
saying nothing,- like Brer Rabbit,
until the storm blew ever, when he
went back te Downing Street and
about his job as if the air had net
been thick with trouble.
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which Lloyd Geerge carried nn appeal,
until the court of last resort upheld
Llejd Geerge and the Nen-Conformists.
Clerical Fight Gave
First Upward Start
This flijht nealnHt clerical nrro nrre
gance, and especially the vigorous way
in which the young lawyer curried It
en, made Lloyd Geerge famous
throughout Wales, and at the next by
election in the district of Cnrnaven
Burgs he was elected te Parliament,
in his twenty-seventh year. It was
this district which returned him regu
larly te Parliament at every election
thereafter.
In the Heuse of Commens the young
Welshman seen became one of the most
prominent iruerrllm iljzhti"-n. conspicuous
for his audacity and pungency of utter
ance and his capacity for obstruction
while the Conservatives were In office.
Events were seen te carry Lloyd
Geerge en te a wider field. In the
nutumn of 1800 he was traveling In
Canada when the news of the impend
ing storm in Seuth Africa arrived. lie
instantly hurried home.
lie was net prpcipltnte In his Judg
ment about the Beer War. lie was
clear that Kruger was wrong in his
treatment of the Utlanders and In at
tacking the British forces, but he was
certain that with better statesmanship
the Issue could hate been settled with
out war. lie was in no sense a paci
fist, and his sympathy then and new
with small nations has been always
tempered with a strong sense that
they have no right te live unto them
selves alone.
What inflamed, however, every in
stinct of his nature was his sense that
certain aspects of the imperialist policy
represented the same hateful spirit of
domination which he had spent his
early life In fighting In Wales.
As long as it was a question of re
pelling the Beer advance en Natal and
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Above, the former Premier and his family, and at the right Mr.
Lloyd Geerge at his favorite sport, golf
himself is perfectly satisfied with
the event as it has happened; that
he will find in it the opportunity te
rid himself of a let of unpleasant
political associations that have ham
pered him and win a chance te
fling himself into the public arena
i a champion of his own individual
policies and the head of his own in
dividual party.
It will be just like Lloyd Geerge
te de the unexpected. He has al
ways done that. Even his bitterest
detractors admit that his whole
career has been a series of successes
wen as much by startling and dis
concerting surprises as by any
genuine greatness of character.
And yet, for all the unpleasant
nd uncomplimentary thjngs that
have been said about him. for all of
the general agreement that he is a
crafty politician rather than a
statesman, a vacillating nnd incon
sistent temporizer, without deeply
rooted ideals, rather than nn in
spired leader of great causes,
scarcely a man in the whole history
of British public life can point te
uch a list of supreme victories
which are bound te leave their im
press en the world for generations
te come.
Lloyd Geerge is the sole survivor
of the national lead-a who guided
Near East storm clouds all have
served te threaten him, but he
emerged still the leader te the dis dis dis
comfiture of his enemies.
Never has the British been mere
a one-man Government than it hus
been under Lloyd Geerge. He is a
marvel physically, else he could net
have steed the strain. His chief re
laxation is golf, or walking, or
spending hours outdoors with his
family or close friends. He. seeks
further relaxation en Sunday eve
nings by singing Welsh hymns in the
privacy of his home. Fer six out of
every seven days, however, he is
generally working en fix cylinders. I
When seme months age the !
Nertbcliffe press wa& storming
about the futility of holding a Genea
parley, and when there was a crisis
ever the position of the Conserva
tives in the Government and the t
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ate the dictation of Sir Geerge
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of the English statesman
spite the Nerthcliffe tirade, the at
tacks of die-hard Teries, the differ
ences between the Premier nnd
Winsten Churchill en the Govern
ment's policy toward Russia, and de
spite, tee, the hard knock which
America gave the Genea parley in
its refusal te attend.
It was one of the hardest fights
of the Premier's career, but he put
it ever, whatever may have been its
eventual contribution te European
restoration, nnd when he returned
te Londen te explain his attitude
anc the meager results of the de
liberations . at Genea ha held n
Jlwue of Commens in his hands.
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Genea Climax Was Similar
Te Others in His Career
The story of the Genea crisis has
been the story of oil of the crises
through which he made his way te re
peated victories.
Lloyd Geerge was born In Manches
ter January 17, 18(18. His. parents
were Welbh, and alwaja Lloyd Geerge,
whose bringing up was In Wales, has
been a champion of Welsh nationalism
and had such a grip en the affections
of his admirers in thnt ceuntrv that
they called him sometimes "The Prince
of Wales."
The son of n schoolmaster, who died
while Lloyd Geerge was nn infant, the
tuture Premier knew the extremes of
poverty as a youth. He hardly tasted
xresh meat, and his grentest luxury in
tnese days, he said once in a public
speech, was an egg which he had te
halve with his brother en Sundays.
lie received only a limited education,
out obtained an apprenticeship with a
"""?' Ifwyers and finally succeeded In
establishing his own little practice In
ales.
He gained his local reputation by
defending the right of Xen-Conformists
he himself was a Baptist te burial
'"the Anglican pnrMi churchyards
w.neut the usunl rites of the Church
of England.
A law establlnhlng this right had
been passed, but an Irreconcilable vicar
et a little church in Wales, outraged
by the passage of the u, had refuted
ju uuew ine burial of a Non-Cen
uriiusi quarrymnn beside the bed
a daughter. He forced the burial ni
body in a nlet sef nHtrIn tnr thn hi, rial
Si"6 pIen7 he was cautious. But
?'" me ran of Uloemfentetn.
for him that his friends had te dote
nreund him te insure his safety.
Jumped Inte Cabinet
At a Single Bound
With the overthrew of the Conserva
tives and the beginning of the Liberal
regime under Sir Henry Campbell-Ban
ncrman In 1005, Lloyd Geerge entered
the Cnblnct at n bound. He was made
president of the Beard of Trade, where
he justified his appointment by the sue-,
cessful handling of a threatened railway
strike which would have paralyzed the
whole kingdom. Lloyd Geerge exer
cised such vigorous tactics that h-!
forced the railway magnates into arbi
tration. When AMiilth became Premier in
1008 he appointed Lloyd Geerge te the
Chnncellerbhip of the Exchequer, which
was applauded generally in financial
circles.
However, when the time came for the
presentation of the budget in 1000-10,
when the Government faced a deficit of
some $7fl,000,000, Lloyd Geerge con
vulsed the country by introducing dras
tic reforms In taxation which put new
burdens en the moneyed classes.
It was this remnrknble Finance Bill
with its heavy super-taxes nnd with its
capture of part of the unearned Incre
ment of land thnt precipitated the war
en the veto power of the Heuse of Lords
an Institution which Lloyd Geerge
declared should be thrown "in the scrap
heap."
War Budget Burdens
Shouldered With Smile
When, with the sudden outbreak of
the Eurepenn war in 1014, Internal
politics uirs eclipsed by England's en
trance into the war. Chnnreller Llevd
Geerge was shouldered with the chief
responsibility of liniiiu-lni: the emplre'-j
part In the great conflict. Though he
had been one of the chief obstructionists
te ;reat military expenditures en the
part of Great Britain In peace times,
face te face with the wnr hn tnrblnl
the problem of raising money with his
whole strength and set in motion the
first of the great leans which were
, floated te meet Britain's war cost estls
, mated nt 510.000,000.000 a year.
In the midst of these financial prob
lems Lloyd Geerge was called te assume
a new role, ns Minister of Munitien's.
when in May, 1015, a coalition Cabinet
was formed and when It was charged
that Lord Kitchener, the Secretary ei
State for War, had failed te supply
the army with sufficient guns and am
munition. I The manner In which Llnrd Otvtre'p
tackled this new problem was typical of
his energetic career. He hurried the
passage through Parliament of a spe
cial munitions bill which gave the Gov
ernment brenu powers of control ever
nil factories that were making or cap
able of ranking wur munitions. The
bill made strikes and lockouts Illegal,
gave power te fine "slackers," limited
the profits of employers and provided
for a volunteer army of workers who
should pledge themselves te go wherever
the Government required them te work
In the factories.
, Unconventional Methods
' Used With Big Success
I Lloyd Geerge directly he became'
' Prime Minister applied te the national.
affairs the snme direct, energizing un-
conventional methods which he had used
in the Heard of Trade and the Muni-'
tiens Ministry. ;
The Cabinet disappeared, te be re-'
placed by a War Cabinet of five men.
without departmental functions, pos
sessed of supreme power. The ether
Ministers, including even the Foreign'
Secretary, were te be satellites called
In only when their own subjects were
under discussion.
Unity of Command Was
Problem for Lloyd Geerge
But unity of efforts was mere diffi
cult. There wnB the difficulty of
placing the troops of one nation under
the command of n general of another
nation. There was the difficulty of in-.'l
duclng the various Governments tej '
forge their independence sufficiently te
submit te u common authority.
It was the disaster of Csparette,
foreseen by Lloyd Geerge, that en
abled him for the first tlme te bridge
the gulf. Ne sooner wus the defeat
of the Italian Army announced than
the plans for assistance were brought
into play, and Jjieyd Ueorge himself
itbecane,' :', 'J, .!!!! te Italy
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troops wns sufficient te step the Aus-tre-Germnti
nttack nnd at Hnpslle
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policy of the Government, he came out
against the war with nil his might nnd
Fought Beer War Party
Against Public Clamer
nn?0.!inteJe&. upon n "'npalgn from
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w.att,lfk-evd j08eDh Clmmberlnln, the
formidable debater In Parliament, nnd'
en one ercnulnn , ., ..n.. .1 .
1 J.i'"'"b.eriain'?et "P and crossed the
Llevd" GeergfSc'r B"k hU "8t '"
stronghold of the war pnrty and almost
2.1 IiC!et.,.ber8h of Chamberlain
$bL t Town IIbU t0 "ai
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shouting for his Weed. The chief con
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Llpyd Geerge's leadership was en
listed by the Indignant Non-Cen-forralsts
of the village, and he led
III etn in a rM nn ilia irravavar1 .k-
tfey removed the body from the sul-
k i,1'"?. "n Piacen it, as tticy wished,
pwwe the grave of the quarryman'a
Anted, tmwiM .proceedings, in which he
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n,i k K J few months Inter the
tide began te turn. .He brought a verv
unfriendly audience at Nevin also In
W,? i8 .i U? 'f1 ,n ll S'A of en"
thusnstlc cheer ng by spontniieensiv
turning and saying in Welsh:
See here new flve M-ars nen i,
electors of the Carnarvon boroughs
handed me a strip of blue naner ti e
certificate of my 'election, tSTand te
sentnt'Jv!!1'"!?8! thelr acejllte,i f repre?
thl AlJ U never. Knln present
the Carnarvon boroughs in the Heuse
of Commens I shall at least have the
satisfaction of handing back te them
that blue paper' with no stall or
human bleed upon it."
At the general election in the 6nme
year Carnarvon boroughs returned him
e Parliament with the UrreT ma
ierity he heA- yet achieved. & that
Lloyd Oeerge secured the nsreement
of the Allies cordially assented te by
President Wilsen In the constitution
of n Supreme Wnr Council.
One ether net Lloyd Oeerge toelj
during the dnrkest days of 1018. The
military arrangements of the Versailles
Council had broken down. The mili
tary council had made the plans, but
difficulties of many ktnds had pro pre
vented their fruition when March 21
came.
Lloyd Geerge decided Immediately
for Marshal Fech as generalissimo,-
Lloyd Geerge's Influence in the,!
armistice negotiations and in the Paring
peace treaty conferences has been teq
widely described te need retelling heri','
Handling of Irish War
Added te His Enemies
His hnndllng of the Irish question "
brought renewed opposition from thfl
nld-tlme Conservative element upon,
wheFe tees he hud formerly trod wltli'
such Impunity. Then came the Near
East crisis nnd the virtual back
down of England from the high btnnd '
first announced by the Premier. H
had te hack down. He found no selU
clarity of public opinion te back him upj,
Ills lust great speech, mnde Just ft
few ilnys agp at Manchester, was his
reply te his critics. But it would net
have muttered what he might have said
there. The Conservatives never have
liked htm, he himself lias denounced
the Rndlculs nnd the Lnberltes. Herei
tofero they have none of them been
nble te get nleng without him. He ha,
has geno his own way In spite -of them"?
But new they de et need him hi
badly, The war Is e l-r. They have a
chance or they tb; k they have ta
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