The New York herald., 1920-01-29
NEW ERA Is SEEN
BY R. LLOYD-GEORGE
Son of British Prime Minister
Says Great Landowners Are
Selling Tracts to Tenants.
WILL NOT TALK POLITICS
Declares English Have the VIII to
Work-He Will Remain
Three Weeks.

The selling by English landowners OF
tracts OF land to the tenants in order that
the enormous taxes will not have TO be
met by the owners and in order that the
farmers may own their homes by investing
the money they have earned throughout
the war is bringing q greater feeling of
oecurity and better comradeship to ali
Englishmen and Englishwomen, Major r.
Lloyd-George, son Of the English Prime
Minister, declared yesterday afternoon at
the Hotel Pennsylvania, where he is stay
ing while on brief business trip here
IT do not mean to say" said Major Lloyd
George. that the farmers and producers,
who have lived as tenants for ages on
these tracts. have been profiteers, but they
have realized great sums of money on their
products. The land owners themselves
have not Jared so well, so have decided to
OF. UP their great estates and sell them
for cash to the persons who up until now
have been tenants.
THE seeling Of comradeship that became
go prevalent In the war. when dukes and
earls and farmers and all fought shoulder
to shoulder for victory, has been cemented
even more tightly by this great social
move"
He said the ports Of the British Isles
still were very much congested and de-
clared it would take some months for a
general clearing Of the way to be effected.
Sees Early Return to Normal Times.
A great deal had been done in the last
few months toward bringing harmony be-
tween labor and capital, he also said, and
after the trouble Of inducing the women to
give way in the shops and factories to the
men all would be normal again. England
could -. of course, get back to normal
so quickly as Belgium and France, but
eventually would regain her feet and take
her place in the worlds trade.
what do you think about the United
States going dry?" Major L!oyd-George
was asked.
That" he replied, chuckling, els your
own business
He refused to talk on politics. and when
asked his opinion concerning Ireland and
her fight for independence. said
You know. after one has been brought
up on a subject, hearing 1t constantly
one gets sick of it,
OF Herbert Hoover he knew little, and
when advised that Mr. Hoover undoubtedly
was thought a great deal Of in England, he
said
"Pm sure don't know
He said the Labor party in England was
very formidable. and predicted that a
Cabinet coalition undoubtedly would con-
tinue in effect. And then when asked con-
cerning his fathers probable future, he
reminded the questioner again that he was
nearing politics, and added. smiling:--
"I'l have to throw out lifebuoy in
minute. I'm about to get over my head.
This is very nearly politics"
Declares British willing TO Work.
Major Loyd-George said he didn't know
so much about England being lax In her
will to "get back to work." as has been
written about and talked about in Amer
ica recently. but declared that everybody
seemed willing enough to do his or her
part.
The young Englshman. who served In
the Welsh Guards as a. major and VINO mas
spent much of his time in South America
in recent years, said he had been In the
United States once before, just before the
war. No one knew his identity then, he
said.
He is a most likeable young man. per-
haps twenty-eight with hair brushed
straight back from his high forehead,
suggesting something of his fathers gen.
eral facial expression, although much
thinner. He wears tiny mustache tnat
hardly extends beyond the sides OF his
is generally known here as an English
accent" He is tall and slender.
He was dressed yesterday afternoon in a
gray suit of English tweed, a small gray
hat of felt. with narrow brim that turned
inward. wore a soft white collar with
a gold clasp, black woollen hose with a
gray stripe up the sides, dull black shoes.
and storm overshoes. He carried stick
of brown wood, and on the tip OF which
was a crest that one judged must have
been of his family.
He will remain in the United states
about three weeks.