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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1278,

"WINSTON'S" BUDGET DAY.

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ME LLOYD GEORGE'S INFLUENCE.

The difference between the two is that" Mr. Lloyd George's eloquence is always pontaneous, springing up, as it were, in the subconscious mind; Mr. Churchill is You gaze along the Governnient Front always elaborated, the product of an iden Beneh and behold a front bench similar inserted into an amazing piece of mental to that in all Adariajstrations, write machinery. I have seen many cases when the Right Hou. C. F. G, Masterman. the spontaneous idea of the former-for. Here are well-meaning, hard-working Me Lloyd George can scatter ideas like WITHmong the sons of Joseph Chamberlain, ashes and sparks among mankind--has hyphenated knights: Mr. Baldwin with been accepted by the latter, grown, fer- his honest sob" others perhaps more tilisi, blossomed until it has led all negligible. It is no worse iu quality than the horizon. And Mr. Lloyd George, inany of Disraeli's Governments without coming home, having forgotten altogether Distarli er many of Ghulston's Gov. the sowing of the initial seed, has found his grain of mustard developed into an |eruments without a Gladstone.

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Suddenly the eye is arrested by a gur who looks, in that "galére," like a cuckoo"

rementer en such case when, after irst of harmless sinal birds. A dourshaped head, now quite bald, a plex the second election of 1010. Mr. Georg Bant smile (or grin) proclaims the pre- and suggested the possibility of the Re sence of a personality different not only form of the House of Lords, instead of When we re- in degree in kind from his neigh the limitation of its veto, hours. He has lately, acquirof the habit, turned from abreal Mr. Churchill had when talking, of wandering round the worked out a complete scheme, and re- box, clearing off. in discomfort, all who fused to listen to the Veto" proposals are on the right side of the left, making on which the election had been carried. a great space for himself adjunte to His mental storm resembled nothing so much as that described by the White his energies,

This is Mr. Winston Churchill a man en in Alice through the Looks

નમસ્કાર It was such a thunder-storm. who has cut his own throat (politically)

dozen times and yet never committed you can't think. And part of the ront came off, and ever so mach thandes got saicile man whose enemies have so

in and it went rolling round the room in after demonstrated that he is dead, while great humps, and knocking over the every time he has been found escaping tables and things, till I was so frightened from his coffin and reappearing as the couldn't remember my own name, sabject of aliniration and conjecture for weeks Mr. Churchill refused to hear of all men's minds.

the Veto Bill: untit Mr. Asquith asked him to take charge of the Veto Bill, which ht then carried through the House, with

MANY PARTS.

LOYALTY.

For

Life has been for him one gorgeous ni-enthusiasm, cogency, and courage, ventures in which politics has played only one of many parts. He charged with the Lancers at Undurman: he was practically Yot, however, technically illiterate his killed in the caking of the armoured receptivity, his willingness to accept new idens, his determined energy to make train wear Ladysmith; he was six days whatever office he for the moment oc- escaping from a Dutch prison in Pretoria in an adventure with some epic quality, capird the first office in the Government, He returned to the war an ghter. have always earned him the enthusiasm He entered Parliament as a fighter. He his subordinates. That has been com raised, at the beginning, the Lattered bined with great good humour, loyalty to

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of Economy, with which the Pare subordinates, and a loyalty to what- linauntary career of his father had been er political party he happens for the destroyed. He hopped from a Toryism moment to belong to, i remember," for which the though) had no future to atxample, the Summer Time Bill first Jiralism which he discerned was des-appearing before an astonished Parlin- ment. None of the Cabinet would touch tined to ral England for a decade. 1t. None of the Home Office ofeials When that Liberalism seemed to him to he dend, he hopped back to Toryism old touch it. The House of Commons again. Daring the firent Way he must opined that it was the conception of a eeds go and fight at Antwerp, although antic, and when Mr. Churchill (un what he was doing there as First Lord oficially) spoke in favour of it he was unt with gibes ned taunts that bis am- of the Adairalty Heaven on! The full story of that expedition, atbition was to be greater than that of once grotesque and heroic, has not been Joshua, and to make the sun stand still told. He resigned his position as Firetot once, but at his pleasure, in the

Summer Time Lord of the Admiralty in order to take Valley of Avalon. Yet command of all the Allied forces in 15 now working smoothly in all North Belgium, in her Europe, producing far greater happiness the Low Countries, ultimate hour," and with memories of to humble folk then most more preten- Mariborough, approved his action, tious legislation.

knows.

think it's time that young man came It was always a joy to work with a bonic. was Mr. Asquith's cheery com-mind so willing to receive ideas which ment when he received that amazing or the dull mind dismissed as impossible, munication; and home that young man and at the same time so ready to be argued out of ideas without obstinacy came."

peevishmas-when his intelligence could be converted to their futility. He has always been a wild improvisator of policy and a most loyal friend

GALLIPOLI AND AFTER,

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In the hideous gamble of Gallipoli he found himself in perpetual feud with

The sub conscious elements in his mind! Lord Fisher, another "man of action " similar in calibre to himself. Both disre naturally Conservative. He is faith- appeared from the control of the Fleet. ful to the class to which he belongs. He Mr. Churchill vanished to command a would undoubtedly be most happy as a newly raised battalion. He never lacked Mussolini or a Lenin, and qually happy physical courage. He becue bored with as either: a Dictator appointed by the trench work. More and more he came wealthy to restrict, the loss of their pos to believe that so energetic a life should sessions, or a Dictator appointed by the wasted" in some obscure skir-poor to make the poor happy. not he mish. He thinks the country has need Of all classes I think he had least love of him. He returns-to achieve power. of the Middle Class," from which so The Coalition has no love for him. He many of his Liberal ideas have been de

He dislikes their Puritanism, sets himself to hchieve power by attackived.

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ing the Coalition. In the secret debates their frequent intolerance, their atmos in Parliament, in the more public debates: phere (as he sees it) of fear of the prole- concerning liberty of opinion, he showstariat and gowardice before the Capita- his capacity for laying his hand on the list.". He has no kind of fundamental weak spots in that curious cerubination.ration for Freedom,

In a few months he is a member of the Coalition. When the Coalition, disap pears, he hesitates: he attacks Mr. Bald win: ho attempts to win Liberal seats, He fails. He comes in with the Con- servative uprush. To the astonishment HOW. of everyone most of all, to himself-the fine generosity of Mr. Baldwin' plants him in the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer. To-day he raises once more thetattered fing" of economy: after the unparalleled adventures of a whole generation,

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The new tale of the relative ranks of officers in the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Air Force published in our columns recently) is not calculated to afford much His claim to his position is adventure, satisfaction to the Royal Marines. Here service, energy of mind, experience of tofore the status of an officer of the Sea the ups and downs of fortune such as few Regiment has been determined by com- men have endured. And now the worldparison with what is deemed correspond. in which he lives-the world of comforting rank in the Royal Navy. Seeing that able England-after all this experience the Royal Marines are a Laval unit, this of violence and change, believes, and would appear to be the proper course. ardently believes that they have foutiBut for the future the relative rank of man who will take a shilling off the ina foyal Marine after is to be the same as that of an Army oficer of the same come-tax.

Churchill, in the cleavage of title, precedence being determined by statesmen into two ultimate classes, be seniority. The result of this inversion of So did his the long-established custom is to reduce longs to the "illiterates." father before him. Mr. Charles Treve- the status of the Marine officer. Hither- to a lieutenant-colonel, RM has held Iran, from the secure height of a second relative rank with and after, a captain eines in the History Tripos bridge, recently informed the Ho that at N., or with and before a full colonel in the Army Now he becomes a step Barrow, Winston was always at the junior to the Army colonel bottom of his form. Lord"Rudolph had

The reason för this change in such an given up the career of his son in des pair. He seemed too stupid for any old-established usage is far from clear. recognised or legitimate occupation. And Since the Marine is a naval, officer, his this was the verdict of a man who had status could not be a matter of much con- challenged the damned dots for their cern to the sister service. If the new meanings as decimals, when Chancelier of order of things has been established with the Exchequer

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I remember many years ago recommend. wo believe it would be doing the Army. ing Winston a quotation from Matthew injustice to assume that it really de- Arnold. Who was Matthes Arnold?edit The Royal Marines have had he inquired and then seeking, the good de to put up with of late, and any volume in a library obviously aut purchaturther tax upon their equanimity scarce- ed, book by book, but in bulk per con seems expedient

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trict: "Damn those public schools. The amalgamation of the two arms, each suppose many would class also Mr. Lloyd with its separate proud record, and the George amongst the illiterates as paring of the remaining strength below distinct from those loaded with first the bone," in the metaphor of the First clasen and fellowships-ún"Asquitha Lord, are scarcely of a nature to stimulate Birkenhead, a Hugh Cecil, n John Himon Frothusinam. There is a growing tendency Yet of these two remarkable men, 31rta introduce chauzes, substitute new (and Lloyd George became the greatest orator generally unwieldy) titles, and one after in England, and Mr Churchill the great another break links with the past. It cat rhetoricing. The latter was hand is not a good practice in connection with capped by physical difficulty, which ben service in which tradition is a most has triumphantly overcoms,

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