The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-11-11

gates, may be expected those OF Bri-
tain, France, Japan anti China. The
strong men of all those nations have
been selected as delegates. The per
sonnet of the delegations from those
countries follows:
British Delegation
(Not yet at Conference)
David Lloyd George, Prime Minis
ter of England, chief of the British
delegates to the Washington Confer
ence on the Limitation of Armament,
has been at the head of the British
government for more than five years.
He is So years old and, in politics, a
Liberal.
When Lloyd George entered the
House of Commons as a member from
C%arnarvon some 80 years ago he was
a country lawyer in Llanystymdwy, in
North Wales. He occupied an UMPIRE
tentious niche as a legislator for 10
years until, in 1908, Premier Asquith
made him a member of his cabinet.
Up to the beginning of the war,
Tories denounced him as "the evil
genius of England" recalling his
great budget battle" of 1909 when he
scored a memorable defeat of the
House of Lords.
1t was largely as a result of his eff
forts as Chancellor of the Exchequer
that Britain raised billions for de-
tense in the early days of 1914, that
as Minister of Munitions when the
British had their backs to the wall"
in Flanders, he turned the industries
of his country into a huge munition
factory, raised an army of $500, 900
soldiers and 100000 war workers,
provided for the building of 1000, 900
tons of shipping, transformed big es-
tates into subsistence farms and en-
forced CONSUMPTION. During the wal
and since, he has been a potent and
active member of the supreme wal
council.
h war over, Lloyd George was
n of the Big Four at the Paris
peace conference. In 1920-21, when
the Irish demands for independence
became formidable, the little Welsh
man was the spokesman for King
George in the negotiations with the
Sim Fein leaders.
Arthur James Balfour was formerly
Prime Minister and has been a lead
ing figure in British public life for
nearly half a century. He is 73
years old and famous as a philosopher
and statesman. He has been chief
secretary for Ireland and held num-
erous posts in the British cabinet.
He was head of the British War
. Mission to the United States in 1917,
= just prior to Americas entry into the
war and while here conferred with
President Wilson n addressed both
Houses of Congress on the needs of
the Allies.
He was a British delegate to The
versailles Peace Conference and has
since attended. many important con-
ferences held in Europe to solve re-
construction problems.
He is a permanent member of the
Council of the League of Nations and
a vice-president of it's assembly.
Mr.. Balfour drafted the note SEN
to the United States in February last
replying to American objections to
Japanese and other mandates over
foreign lands, notably, the Island Of
zap. He was a member of the Brit
ish Imperial conference held in Lon
don last July and as British represen-
tative of the Supreme Council and in
the League of Nations took a promin-
ent part in negotiations over the divi-
sion of upper Silesia.
1t was Mr.. Balfour who pledged
England to support the establishment
of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Lord Lee of Fareham (Baron Ar
thur Hamilton Lee) the First Lord of
the Admiralty is SO years old and
sometimes has been called the Hoov-
er Of England" He was Director Gen
eral of Food production there in 1917
IS. His wife was formerly Miss Ruth
Moore of New York.
Lord Lee was military observer
with the United States army during
the Spanish-American war. In a re-
cent statement he said that sit is
ready to meet the United States on
~disarming." Colonel Roosevelt was
his friend and once visited him at
Chequers Court, his beautiful estate
in Bucks, which the Baron in 1920
gave to Lloyd George for his country
home.
Sir Auckland Geddes, ambassador
to the United States, and the alter
nate member of the British delega-
ton married Miss Isabelle Gamble
Ross of New York.
In the world war he held several
positions in the British cabinet. He
succeeded Viscount Grey in 1920 as
British ambassador to the United
States. Shortly after his arrival, in
a speech at Ottawa, Sir Auckland ap-
pealed to Canada ito aid in bridging
the abyss of misrepresentation be-
tween Britain and the United States"
Sir Robert L. Borden, former prem
Ter of Canada, n of the representa-
tives of the British Dominions, is 67
years Did. He vas born in Nova
Scotia, became a school teacher in
New Jersey and was at the head of
the Canadian government from 1911
until 1920. Sir Roberts was a colon
ial delegate to the Paris Peace Con-
ference. He was strongly in favor of
the League of Nations and, in an ad-
dress in London, shortly after the
armistice, said that America and
England together could maintain the
peace of the world"
Georoe Foster Pearce. senator and