Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-04
IT'S WAR TO DEATH BETWEEN
NORTHCLIFFEA AND LLOYD GEORGE
Centers In Disarmament
Fought In Papers
And Parliament
BY MILTON BRoNNER.

LONDON, August Ats war to
the death now between the two most
influential men in the British empire
Lloyd George, the premier, and
Lord Northcliffe, the publisher.
Lord Northcliffe made Lloyd
George Premier.
The question is, can the publisher
unmake the premier?
Millions there are in the British
Isles who will bet he can.
The issue will be decided either
before or during the coming dis
armament conference in Washington.
Lord Northcliffe is opposing the ap-
parent intention of Lloyd George to
attend the conference as the repre-
sentative of Great Britain. "Of all
the statesmen in Europe he is prob
ably the most distrusted," the pub
Usher says of the premier.
Personal Affront.
Whatever Lord Northcliffe had
said through his papers and what
ever Lloyd George had said in reply
was regarded as merely differences
,
British embassy at Washington per-
sonally affronted Lord Northcliffe
by Withdrawing invitations to a din
ner which it had planned to give for
him.
"This is a personal insult which
Lord Northcliffe will exact retri-
button for, if it takes his last pound" :"
say close acquaintances of the pub
Usher.
They say Lloyd George has small
chance of having any disarmament
agreement which he enters into ap-
proved by the British parliament so
long as Lord Northclife battles
! against him.
Not only that, but they point out
that if Lord Northcliffe should set
out to wage war on Lloyd George in
America, he may go so far as to is
sue a paper regularly in Washington
during the conferences.
For Lord Northcliffe has repeat
edly said that the one way to bring
about a mutual understanding be-
| tween the two nations is for each to
read the others publications. And he
has spent tens of thousands of pounds
to encourage aviation, hoping that
some day he would be able to de-
liver his papers in New York on the
same day on which they issued in
London.
How 1t Started
Most people saw the conflict COM
! ing on shortly after the peace confer
ence began to meet at Versailles.
| The Northcliffe press criticized the
prime minister because of the follow
ing things:
The secrecy of the proceedings.
The tender attitude toward the
Bolsheviki
The apparent failure to make Ger
many pay in full for the cost of the
war.
Nobody knew how these attacks
were hurting the premier until he
returned to London on April 16,
1919, and made an extended speech
to the house of commons, explaining
what had been done at Versailles. In
the course of this he made an attack
upon Northcliffe. Said the premier
when a man is laboring under a
keen sense of disappointment, how
ever unjustified and however ridic-
ulous the expectations may be, un-
der those circumstances he is al
ways apt to think the world is badly
run.
when a man has deluded him
self and all the people whom he ever
permits to go near him, help him into
the belief that he is the only man
who can win the war, and he is wait
ing for the clamor of the multitude
that is going to demand his presence
there to direct the destinies of the
world and there is not whisper, not
sound, it is rather disappointing.
1t is unnerying, it is upsetting.
/ Then the war is won without
him. There must bd something
wrong. OF course it must be the
government. Then, at any rate, he
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