The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-03-01
A Note Of Bitterness.

A Note Of Bitterness.
nY THIS TIME, Lloyd George must have
I'D fairly earned the title OF the foremost states
| man OF the world. Some statesmen may excel him
in quality, another may exceed him in another
quality or characteristic, but, considering the i'm.
portancc of the period in which he has served
fhe magnitude of the problems handled, the colossal
stakes, the removal from power OF those in CORE.
spending positions in other nations while he has
| remained in office, it just to accord the
| "Welsh Wizard" the leading position among the
worlds statesmen Today although a few elections
| have gone against the coalition. Lloyd George
| certainly commands the support and confidence o
most of Britain His settlement of the Irish ques
| ton has won some Of his old enemies to him
| The happy result of the Washington conference
| has redounded to his credit. His proposal OF the
Genoa conference and his winning France to .
reasonable participation in it, have raised his reputa
ton higher In Europe, the nations looking
to Lloyd George to work out plan of reconstruc.
ton. In America, he has millions of admirers.
Yet in Britain, the support of Lloyd George
although easily preponderant is far from universal
The Laborites do not trust him. But, more an
tagonistic than they, are the "die-hards," the
Unionists, who refuse to support the coalition
These were strong in their denuncation OF the
Irish settlement They oppose dealings with Soviet
Russia and denounce soft policy toward Germany
Their chief organ is the famous Morning Post Of
London. The Post, at times. is vitriolic. Lloyd
George is very frequent victim of its drum-hre
The Posts issue of January 10 contained a par
ticularly bitter attack upon the premier and the
press which supports him. This editorial en-
titled walk Up, Walk Upr' and part of it read
as follows:
"Our prime minister may or may not be
a great statesman but there be no two
opinions about his aptitude Snowman. In
the art Of publicity. he has nothing to learn
from Barnum. Never a minister q state
so we'll advertised. No actor-managcrN even,
could have industrious or jealous press
agents The photographer and the Photographer
have become indispensable members of his
stately retinue. They attend him in every
circumstance and relation of life, to provide the
lively prelude to the orchestrated boomngs OF
the LLOYD Georgian press And these boomngs
cannot be pitched too high, nor be too much
dominated by the brass, to achieve their in
dcspised as reticcnce, in advertising the merits
of an administration that claims to be
recognized as the greatest show on earth,
thanks to its star performer Thus we find
the front page OF the principal Lloyd Georgian
organ prociaiming yesterday, in doube-column
headlines and notes of admiration, the forth
contrived episode of his dazzling career-the
economic conference at Genoa. A few days
ago. every resource and faculty was concen-
trated the Cannes episode; but in spite OF
all that could be done with the spotlight and
the band, that episode came to fiat conclu-
sion, and left the star man with very I'M
impressive exit And as, in the Snowman world,
failure is admitted, but quickly covered up
by new distraction, the public now in
vited more clamantly than ever to walk up
walk up on the assurance that Genoa will
afford such spectacle as will leave no room
for regret over Cannes. Forty-fve nations
invited to Genoa AN Europe , except except Turkey
Thus the man with the megaphone:
But the defamation is nothing to the
language in what may be be called the small
yet made to the parliament of man, the fed
Grafton of the world, will be the European
Economic Conference to be held at Genoa on
March g. All the nations of Europe, except
Turkey, will be represented, and, in addition
to these twenty-four, twenty-one nations OF the
New World-the United States, the British
Dominions Gt is hoPed), Japan, and the South
American states. Lloyd George will attend
the greatest figure in the 1000 in the as
semblage.'
"If this is not mammoth bill of I'M
paralleled attractions where is the thing to be
found? Not only the representatives of every
nation in Europe but, against the background
which they provide, Lloyd George himself,
like statue solid-set, and nodded in colossal
calmr The greatest figure Of the 1000 in the
assemblage' Yes indeed; This phrase errs on
the other tame panegyrist wrote in the OBJ
server few days ago-The issue incontestaby
leaves Lloyd George the foremost figure in
the world Yet the greatest figure of the
1000 in the assemblage' is evidently honest
and earnest effort. even if it tells of prentice
hand. Perhaps the eulogist is keeping some
thing up his sleeve Meanwhile, let all Europe
/ except Turkey proceed to group itself; and
let the public of two hemispheres stand at gaze
Co.. For Lloyd George will attend Positively, he
will attendl Ladies and gentlemen there is
no deception s 90 49,
We venture guess that Lloyd George takes time
to read the editorials in the Post now and then.
We fancy he would not want to miss one like the
above; he would get lot of fun out of it,