Evening star., 1923-10-09
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

/, ings to educate his nephew to become
| a solicitor. The money was scant. ana
to eke 1t out the cobbler himself took
order or that he might be the nephew's
first teacher. :,
Was it destiny or premonition which
led on the youth SO that when ne
CHANGED to visit parliament, at the
age of seventeen, he wrote In his
I diary: Went to the houses of parlia-
ment. Very much disappointed with
them. - will not say / eyed
the assembly in the spirit in which
/ William the Conqueror eyed Ehgl"nd
/. ION his visit to Edward the COMPRESSOR
las the region OF his future domain.
Q Vanity"
David Lloyd George Is today bet
ter democrat than many an Ameri-
| can. He has the makings of 100 per
cent American, and If he ever takes
out naturalization papers here he Will
do better than Roosevelt told the
| kaiser he would do If he ever came to
the United States. Emperor Wilhelm
asked Roosevelt, when the latter
. visited Germany after the African
! hunt, what sort of an American poll
citizen of the United States. and, pom
dering the royal question, Roosevelt
cspec cspry Your ward sot soess So yG Wirh Lloyd
George, he is a democrat of democrats
and Rooseveltian leader of uncon-
ventional progressives.
He has declared that George Wash
ington was the real founder of the
British empire, as We know II. He
taught us to become a democratic en-
pire."
X X x X
In Robert Lansing's book, 1.-THE Big
Four" in which the former Secretary
of State analyses the four leaders of
the Versailles peace negotiations
Clemenceau. Woodrow Wilson. Lloyd
| George and Orlando-this Is how he
sketches the great Welshman:
"Mr Lloyd George possessed a
: wonderfully alert mind. which fairly
bubbled over with restless energy.
He made decisions rapidly and with
little regard to details or funda-
mental principles. If he fell into
or wrong deductions, he picked him.
self up with laugh or witticism. and
went ahead as If nothing hal hap-
pened.
I'm debate he was vigorous and
often impetuous. If 1t We're shown
that his argument was based on false
premises, he unblushingly changed
his premises, but not his argument
The audacity with which he ignored
logic was a subject of frequent COM
ment.
"He, In my opinion, had the quick
est mind of the Big Four. but 1t
seemed to lack stability He gave
the impression of man who:
through force of circumstances, had
been compelled to jump at conclu-
sions, instead of reaching them
through the surer but slower proc
esses of reason. By many he was
credited with superficial knowledge
and careless Judgment.
'Viyacious, good tempered, and
possessing a strong sense or numor,
Mr. LLOYD George was socially an at
tractiye person while in debate his
cIeyerness in finding the weak spots
in an opponents armor and his utter
Indifference to his own errors made
him a dangerous antagonist. He at
tackled with vigor and he defended
by attacking. He was not by nature
a negotiator."
His ideal, as expressed by one OF
his biographers, E. w. Walters, is
ito protect the rights of the small
and the weak against the ambitious
and encroachments of the strong.
Yet he is not "-adical." His worst
enemy comedies his honest purpose.
Though not an American, he comes
close to answering the American cry:
God give us men! A time like this
/, demands strong minds. great hearts,
true faith and ready hands"
Copyright, 1923. by Paul V. Collins.)