The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-10-19
ON GROUND
OF RESIGNATION
FROM OFFICE
Lloyd George Has Had a
Most Notable Career-He
OutIasted All the States
men Who Guided Great
Nations Through The
World War


Associated Press) The resignation Of
Prime Minister Lloyd George was Off
eially announced this evening.
The resignation Of Viscount Peel, the
secretary of state Tor India, also was
Il announced.
After brief audience with King
George this afternoon Mr.. Lloyd
George returned to Downing street,
where he received miners delegation,
hut according to Frank Hodges, who
headed the delegation. Mr.. Lloyd
George said he could not consult them
as prime minister since he had re-
signed.
Members of the miners delegation
said Mr. Lloyd George had told them
4 the king had accepted his resignation
The miners, relating their experience,
said Mr.. Lloyd George received them
smilingly, and asked their business and
that Mr.. Hodges replied I'VE have
come to see the prime minister
Well gentlemen, have to inform
you that there is no prime minister
replied Mr.. Lloyd George. Il have just
seen his majesty and rendered my resig-
nation, which his majesty accepted"
LLOYD George outlasted all the
ltatesmen who guided the great ma
tion through the World war. In the
turmoil Of readjustment that followed
that conflict. he kept his seat at the
steering wheel when all around him
were losing theirs.
The three men with whom ne sat at
Paris as the "big four" of the peace
conference, long ago we're toppled
over. Premier Orlando Of Italy was
the irst to go His cabinet resigned
in June, 1919. The following Janu
ary, Clemenceau, the French tiger, was
cast aside. Two months later the
Senate of the United States refused
for a second time to ratify the peace
treaty Woodrow Wilson had brought |
home from Versailles, and not long
afterward his party was beaten at
the polls.
After all Of the other three had |
been put aside in their countries, Mr.. |
Lloyd George because probably the
most outstanding figure among all the
men Of the world who were engaged in |
public affairs His position, constant
" in danger from a possibly dropping
away of one of the groups forming
the coalition on which his government |
rested was strong then so far as his
tory is concerned, after all the other
war statesmen had gone because he
acted as Great Britain spokesman in
the parleys last winter with the rebel
lious Irish leaders--parleys which led
10 the creation of the free state, and
peace after 700 years of strife between
England and Erin.
The result Of Lloyd George was an
adventure in politics filed with as
much romance as the lives of those fa-
nous Americans, who, as the school
books say, came up from log cabins
20 the White House.
He was born in Manchester. Eng
land, Jan. II, 1868. His father, a
Unitarian school master, died when
David was an infant, and the child
was adopted by an uncle, Richard
Iloyd. Welsh shoemaker and lay
preacher. With only a limited cdu-
tation. David went into law Office
in the little town of North Wales,
where he lived with his uncle. Then
he married and soon dived into poll
tics.
For rs wears he was Liberal mem
her of Parliament, representing Car
naryon. Then came a rapid rise to
fame. His ascent 10 a place among
the mighty began in zoos when As
auith became prime minister The
little welchman with the sparkling
ewes entered the cabinet as chancel-
ior Of the exchequer. The next year
IN the great budget battle" he routed
tire once powerful House of Lords
His achievement in this fight was
rallied ~the first victory against the
citadel Of wealth in the
modern world With the coming on
81 the war Lloyd George convulsed (
the country BY introducing drastic re- !
forms in taxation, which put new bur !
feus on the wealthy classes and con- :
fscsted part Of the unearned incre-
ment Of land
In the dark hours Of 1916 when
England vas threatened vita strikes
~ a time when Germany was scoring
heavy successes on the western front, 4
LLOYD George left the chanceilorship !
NJ the exchequeT 10 become minister 4
II munitions and -with no other 4
sauipmcnt than = private secretary / 4
y 81 an ofice table stsked his repn- d
Istion and his future 90 nobiliring the I
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