Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-23
By r. T. s.
1922. By Tho Great Falls Tribune.

Copyright, 1922, BY Tho Great Falls Tribune.
Washington, Oct. 22.-The over
throw of David Lloyd George as pre-
mier of England and the selection OF
Judge Walter e. George as the new
senator from Georgia gave the Georges
their full share of the gossip in Wash
ington during the last few days.
Washington officials and newspaper
men who attended the peace confer
encc in Paris have the liveliest recol-
l~ections of the little Welshman. They
remember in particular their first
mass interview with the British pre-
ment of the English journalists, Lloyd
George was placed ON the grill BY the
Americans and made to stand up and
answer questions much after the man
ner various cabinet officers Of the
administration are burdened in their
dens at regular intervals by the writ
ing men.
When Lloyd George consented to the
interview he, too, thought that it
would be just such an interview as he
had given to the English press men at
10 Downing street.-the interview
being a statement by the premier Of
just what he wanted to say-and no
more. At the mass interview with the
Americans the premier made his little
speech and was about to bow himself
out when one Of the American CORE
spondents, a mar of long training in
and intimacy with men high in the
councils Of the government, spoke up.
Could He Ask a Question:
MIR. Premier" he yentured, and
lloyd George turned a quick look in
his direction, might / ask a ques-
tom"
The big little man of the big four
hesitated for just q fraction of a sec
end and replied:
Why, certainly"
Thereafter not one question but
many for others among the American
contingent began to pop interrogations
at the government of Great Britain,
and under their skillful handling Of the
situation some real news developed.
Lloyd George. either willingly or unwil-
lingly. allowed himself to be placed on
record on Il number of very burning
questions.
To such an extent he was led to ex-
press himself that some of the CORE
~spondents began to get q tinge OF frost
bite around the toe tips and there
were many abs from the British jour
! HiGAh t8 INV SAsA'
You know it suits us all right and
all that sort of thing perhaps to get
the prime minister to say these things.
but you must never, never quote him
or suggest that he really said any
thing
"Well. let's see about that" replied
the Washington correspondent
by the way, Mr.. Prime Minister.
is it all right to quote You on what
you have said this evening! they
chirped.
oh, quite" replied Lloyd George
! with a smile that was, perhaps, a
trifle too affable.
Anticipating Big Stuff
In any event off dashed the Ameri-
| can correspondents to their folding hot
| and cold running typewriters and out
of the mills" came about the ~grandest
interview ever given by a head or an
European government.
And now the kick.
The boys of the press stuck out
| their chests and waited for messages
! of congratulations from the editors
! back home. For "a hours the normal
| chest expansion of Paris averaged
about four inches oversize for every
! American writer in the village. But no
word came from home. :,
Nor was there any 'repercussion''
| of the momentous interview in the for
eign press. Certainly such IN inter
view would be cahled back from the
United States to Europe and there
| fore there would be a "repercusslon-
The ordinary reporter might say
echo, but never the journalist dealing
with the world affairs.
At last somebody smelled a rat and
it proved to be about the largest and
most odoriferous rodent in the entire
French capital.
oh, yes, Lloyd George had given full
permission to be quoted on that inter
view.
Willy WeIshman's Trick
But when the English ''pressmen'
and the American newspaper men
were out of sight and sound, the willy
Welshman picked up one Of those