HERE was the man of whom Churchill. said: 'He shaped our fortunes.....'

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Tis old how the names of two great war-winning Prime Ministers continue to be intertwined. Just when MPs of all parties do unprecedented honour to Sir Winston Chhurchill in Westminster Hall the name of his life-long intimate, David Lloyd George, is going to be on everyone's Mps too.

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For the major publishing event of the year sets the Lloyd

George Яtory, **Tempestuous Journey." by Frank Owen, in Atting background of knowledge, enabling everyone to measure with new eyes the Immensity of his achievement.

By WILLIAM BARKLEY

The 1914-18 war takes up only third of the 756 pages. There is so much else in the Life

The conception and birth of the social services-the first use

t Le Budget as an instrument of social policy- for bar buck, his own private war against the War- further forward, the national plans sedentare, power, and transport which have dely ng prommels for all subsequent planners. Jomney is vast and the labour is great dearented it everywhere with detach- word restraint.

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ab tels sayang of flava George an his Sa her toned by these few months When the English history of it of the 2000 century written it will be

la proter part of our fortunes in peace and

ged by this one man

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TAANAN quarried for their genes in the 1025 topt to the Archines, a lanh mom belong to 20 his peers are sprinkled with novel

Stories 14 there

irst trate detail

HE threw advice

to the winds, and was triumphantly

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Iter

an

Cummings

THE RISE AND FALL

of the giant

right

AS Lloyd George tion this Minister threw all

"the

who advice to the winds and was Won the war?" triumphantly right.

greeted him on HO

We should be mighty meeting him in 1936. Under grateful that Lloyd George ths Battery Lloyd George knew nothing of war hunted Biler as a man of pace. "How wrong can B mun be!" comments!

great Owen,

fathered the view that was a Welsh solicitor whe

waged by Kitchener.

The contrast

In each of theso

wars

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1954.

But a KING

WAS WRONG

'X years later Lloyd headed un independent Tory

uut Government. George's going

Was as respiratorial as his coming in.

That account all scomS per- for thla, fectly clear, except Owen states: "Beaverbrook has always claimed he had no part

(of Bonar

Law

to

In 1922 MARY Turies or shore In reaching this wished to regain their free decision," dom from his Coalition, but leave his tent). their acting leader Austen Who, then, persuaded Bonar

Chamberlain und

a

were Minister.

tied to

the

the

Viscount Maugham, by P

later in office at the has recently start was found unacceptable as contrast,

But what a con- Je propeo des3. he

1 1 1 the king off!

Neville Chamberlain was put out in n short, sharp tussle in public, in the Hune Com anons, with his successor Chur- chi loyally defending his chief.

knew nothing about war." Let us see the record.

The fight

It had to fight the War Office To get them to accept weapons. Kitchener, "who at that time was looked upon. generally as our greatest soldier," told him that any- thing above four machine Kuna

battalion [1 luxury.

was EL

in

Lloyd George gave structions: "Take Kitchen- er's maximum, square it, multiply that by two, and when you are in sight of that double it again for good luck."

By the end of the war the average was 80 a battalion.

Then Lloyd George thought of ordering 600 heavy howitzers in the sum- mer of 1915. Kitchener re- sisted furiously. Lloyd George invited him to appeal to the Cabinet,

Protest

"Kitchener protested that If the extra guns were de livered he would be unable to find the gunners to man the batteries.

"On this the Prime Mini- tor (Asquith) hastened to net up a Cabinet Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Crewe, to settle the issuc.

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The roader sits half-entranced, half-shocked at the record Owen's book of November 1910, Asquith's last month of office,

others Law? Owen says no more. Prime

Another Walshman Tom Jones, formerly of the Cablem Ofice, in his recent Diary quotes The movement could not a document given him by the move without a Tory Prime late Counter Baldwin, her with Minister in sight. The old record of a conversation

her husband. leader Bonur Law was con- fined to his tent, not sulk- Baldwin sald hc uried ta ing like Achilles but in poor percunde Bonar Law to come to

the meeting and failed: health and spirits.

Lord Davidson, П Also tried Intimate

Everything turned on geiling failed.

Hour Law to attend and speak al tho ni proposed moeting Carlton Chub.

The Cabinet's relations with

danger. Beaverbrook went to Bonar Law and said: "These

It seems for these weeks there Turkey had reached a point of was no Government at all.

The fight was over effective of the Cabinet reorganization for waging the war. We read vf Bonar Law, the Tory leader, pursuing Atquith to 10, Downing street to corner him the Cabinet room.

alone

In the web

men mean war.

Bonar Law wrote a long, long letter which was published in two newspapers, the Times and Beaverbrook's Daily Express.

Away, away down

in this

be-

Or it is Max Aitken (Lord letter was a phrase which Deaverbrook) who "at that time came historie: "We cannot alone had the means of finding Lloyd act 219 the policemen of the George n any hour of the day

That lefer, says Owen, world." his or night." Anding

quarry

with dining ut

Hotel, did not affect the crisis "beckoning him away from his Turkey, but it brought down the party, taking him off to the Coalition Government. waiting taxi-cab in Piccadilly in which Bonor Law sat.”“

Berkeley

Th

Two letters

his

The drama is intense, Till the lus! moment it scems that Asquith will come back with a new Cabinet, or join a Cabinet

The Carlton Club meeting under Bonor Law, that Lloyd was October 19. George will go out,

"The evening before, while everything Beaverbrook was sitting in clips inia Fulhem beans, The Virayard place.

bis telephone bell rang. W 0 n "So writes:

"ile had deliberately kept Lloyd away from Bonar Law all day. George New Bonar Law asked his formed his friend to come and see him. Government

REPUHANAN HUMMING AUT{}}*).

largely of "Bonar Law showed him two Tory polit- letters. One resigning his soat

cians

the who in the House of Commons, had been ather to say he would not be brought up to distrust him.... attending the Carlton Club The leaves and the Ashes were meeting next day. divided.

**Well, you've made up your met once, and tho "There was one young man mind, mild Beaverbrook. Bui Master-General of the who might feel that he Won after a talk Bonar Law decided Ordnance, General von being rather strictly rationed at to cancel both letters."

this repast. This was Sir Max

"It

Donop, repented the War Aitken, M.P. for As'on-under- Beaverbrook telephoned the Offico caso. Lloyd George Lyne who had been at the very Press Association, for release to made no reply.

centre of the web, and by mány all newspapers, the official nows has been credited with spinning that Benar Law would attend.

the meeting.

"I suppose, sir, sald his ft. secretary, J. T. Davies,

Resigned

"He had been promised tho afterwards, that this means Board of Trade... For many the end of your programme." days and nigh's his apartments at the Hyde Park Hotel had "No,' said Lloyd George. been the hub of activity and

His decision to attend altered 'It means the end of the excitement. Now 'strango. the future cour of party

silence tell." committen."

politics to this day.

A

He was offered a peorage. Ho

"Bonar Law thought his' way

I find that story hard to refused. Benar Law urged him aloud to the Brm gontusion match for sheer vision and, to accept, mying: "I have job that the Torr Party must now courage. The tradition is often. Blood in your way, Bar quit the Coalition, the that a Minister acts on the aidow we want your walled the question. best advice he can got. By Aber StanleyMike new Press | Lloyd Georga resigned pure imagination and intu dent of the Board of Trade.

Ashton-under-Lane, for sus

"M WERNY Max" brook), Baldwin said

He sald

politiend and also

(Beaver

Then in

heaven's name who was it?

Wo

can't waiti "It was not Max: R Was Aunt Mary," Baldwin suid. "Aunt Mary'

Bonar Law's alster.

His fall

means

THE ORATOR

An szemple of Lloyd George » Felt World War oratore... from Frank Owen's OUGA

sheltered valley for gunmentions. We have been too comfortabla and two induliust-unaar, DERDEJO, Leo selfish—and this Stars hand Fate hand

uleration where we can tới tha wverigating thing, that matter for a nation-che MG) packs We had forgoliub. Patriotiam, and, clad in zittaveing white,

果 Sacrifice, pointing dká a read Bager to Herren."

the

*We shall descend into the vallaya sauls i bot ng long as the men and women of this gunmention last, they will party to thede hasita the lungs of these great mowaisin peaks whose foundations are not shakes, though Kurape rock and away la the convulsion of a great

to see Mr Bonar Law to pak for a grant for Welsh acastle."

going, "I am worry he is wrote King Georga V, but zarba day he will be Prime Minister ngain."

"No.

The book was closed."

The Church

And The Challenge

By Paul 'Johnson

Buenos Aires.

PRESIDENT Foron

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in for the toughest fight of his stormy career. As his feud with the Roman Catholic Church grows tampo and temper, it is be- coming plain that even his most loyal supporters wondering which way turn.

are

to

If his dimas has born mug- sested--is to stamp out religious tenching In the schrols and curb the Church's lafluster on the eclat life of the country la Limost certain that he wil

fan

For his strength lies with thri working claws; and it is pre- dizely the working classes who

Te most dearly religious. The Church. It is true.

(ways been suspicious of

bax

THIS is

GORDONS

DRY GIN

ET ADVERT

the

loud-falking dietator. But, true

with

10 its doctrine that its concer the Kingdom of God

And not with the affairs of

governments, it has never come into the oren to fight him.

Ha'a Convinced

Peron, however, is convinen that, behind the scenes, church- min re wondering whether or not the time has come to cut him short before his ambitbas sire.ch out beyond Argohiina.

There may be some grounds Fot his fears though tac activities to be feared are nor you ably quite different from those he seems to be codcipa.ing.

That there a disquict among students, there can be no doubt. And that some trom

the classes

of this stems

held every-

where by prietis on *morality” and "Christian ethics," there is to doubt.

Youth fired with ideals does not like dictatorship.

Even less does it like the petty corruption and the vast mistakes in national ecoup- mics perpetrated In TOREN years

primarily to Inhate Peron's g

Some of this feeling makes rire fodder for Peron's enemies;

and youth can curity be led into plots and romantle slonk 201 dagger affairs like the attempt to kill the Minister of the Ibe berlor.

"We invite you, to inspect our Christmas Range now showing in the Alexandra Arcade, display window

Owen's chapter on

the fall from power ends in Greek Irony which I find very moving.

the

"Lloyd George, before leaving, chatted his secretaries in Cabinet room where he had made history.

'He said it would be the last time he would ever be there

he was only 58 unless come beck as the bead of a deputation

MOUSON

The

LONDON,

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