The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-06
LLOYD GEORGE THE
SALAMANDER OF
EUROPE
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

By HERBERT KAUFMAN.
THE rarest thing in the world is great There
are countries which haven yet produced single one
Since the landing of the natives, cant discover
hundred human history marks.
Out $50 inches in Hall Of Fame sixty-four are
occupied institution doesn't expect to- enlarge its
capacity until the year 1000.
Westminster Abbey despite space devoted puppet kings
and royal cretns has ample left to enomb British
giants for centuries uncounted
Lloyd George will sleep there while his soul goes
marching on
CONTEMPORARY opinion may scout as much it
pleases but the iron that brands this Welshmans
upon tomorrow preserves memory of flame whose
havoc destined to Scorch
Hate withers, caumny dies times broom sweeps away
misunderstanding blurred vision gradually clarifies
tives re-read elemental quality finally weighed
dispassionate posterity delivers abiding judgment
WHEN ability fairly appraised during i'm
w portant lifetmef
W John Wilkes Booth drove the last not first
dagger into Lincolns breast.
Elizabeth the Tudor never sensed how shabby actors
lines would out-endure those Of English dynasty.
following generations and prove the
gold in Shakespeare
Nor did Washington dream of the hour when he should
enthroned Zeus among Olympians Examination dis
closes mud stains on has laurels, too
4 PPRECIATION like canonization is usually post
norton experience Wreahs for the dead and bricks
for the quick
the had shown little Of its and
his outward Journey Goods finger might not have
OBITUARIEs belated erasers Of injustice Here's
where person. at least gets the chance to peep
at a few of the sentiments likely to appear in his
epitaph
Individual and partisan estimates won't alter the bulky
evidence supporting Lloyd Georges unique claim upon
distinctions
N ATLAS is here. The burdens that his unbending
shoulders sustained while chaos snatched the uni
beyond present comprehension.
He, among all statesmen had the responsibility
back yonder.
reached printers ink stand revealed; when the
widow and the cobbler ward whom emergency thrust
into hundred awed viseinto situation still cloaked by
censorship into desperate such
not admit and hope to survivethen and only them may
the true stature Of this Welshman be determined
TV7HO else endures in undmmed recollection from the
w WITHDRAWING, braindumbing ordeas that exhausted
the entire of precedent stripping plate
from pnchbeck leaders, leaving Europe with refuse pile
of shattered regulations?
Search the chasms of srepue for forgotten ttans
of 1914 and after.
Political ashbns already disclose Stag the fuel that
fired tempered mass zeal for victory
He alone energies undwarfed salamandar trial
Former confreres are without audience forum.
Explanation largely lies in the difference between man
OF natural height and pedestal This shorn
Bonar and Baldwin succeeded to his part not place
Cemenceaus voice dies in mdar Nitti Orlando and Sa-
landra faded pictures
r he gripped the helm
His shrewd, penetrating eye has not missed single
flaw IN the international crystal.
Todays cable reports are merely notifications Of his
months-old Ruhr and League analyses.
He forepayed the music to which England humiliat-
ngy Dances forewarned France of Poncares bunges
preoned the hopeessness hepessness of the League
of Nations.
A AMAZING person Catch glimpse of him if you
Bend every effort hear him talk. You re not
apt to get within meeting distance of his like.
successor Of Pitt big enough to acknowledge George
Washington as the father of both British and American
democracy merits reciprocal generosity from the nation
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