Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
by EDWARD PRICE BELL.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
LONDON, July 24.-In Great Brit
tain's exertion to improve her in
dustrial and economic situation, and
thereby to re-establish her political
and social life upon a solid basis, one
of her most renowned public men APP
pears to be emerging from what some
were inclined to regard as permanent
eclipse. This man, by Unborn faculty,
is a man of crises. His spiritual home
is in the political cyclone-belt. Wild
waters, domestic or foreign, set him
on the wing. He Is, / suppose, the
worlds liveliest human stormy petrol.
Need one name him?
David Lloyd George, for six oner-
Gus and dangerous years Q917-23)
British prime minister, was an old
parliamentary hand long before that.
He got his politics, not out of his nurs-
ing bottle, but earlier. Just as Swim
burne, for example, came into the
world q poet, so Lloyd George came
into it politician. He has had his
ups and downs. His hat has gone into
the ring for countless fights-'all OF
which," says he, IT hated. l hated
them all. am a man of peace"
Whereupon, his audience claps fren.
ziedly and rocks with laughter.
Ready When Country Calls.
Not idolized everywhere in Great
Britain for some years now, Lloyd
George is reviving. His heart is beat
ing more quickly. His lips are firmer
There is a keener, more confident
flash in his eyes. He swings from
side to side with a surer mien of com
mand. His gestures, his irony, wit
&c o10i cr1-a ms h CT n
METAPHORS, his spontaneous PUSHES OF
eloquence. all bear more vivid sug
gestion of the little wizard at the
height of his wizardry. 1t is the crisis
in him. 1t is the storm. 1t is the
Lloyd Georgian recoil to the new ma
tional trait and the new national psy
chology.
Ruddy-complexione plump, darting
bright glances hither and thither, this
young old liberal leader the is 6S as
against Asquith's 74) had a field day
at the National Liberal Club on June
l23. the club honoring him with d
luncheon, and more than 600 excited
women and men packed the huge
smoking room to hear him speak.
I sat within a few feet of the ora
tor. He was at the top of his form
1t was the happiest day. and the most
| triumphant day, of his life since Bald
win shattered the cOallIl0n CaDlnot II
l1922 and paved the way for his owT
smashing victory at the polls in 1925
All has not gone well of late in the
| poftier attitudes of liberal leadership
| Asduith is leader of the party in the
country, Lloyd George in the House
of Commons. Welded recently, theil
| honeymoon was short. AS ever, with
these high contracting parties, there
was incompatibility of temperament
They quarreled over the genera
strike. Asquith did not like Lloyt
Georges conduct and said so. There
| was a beautiful connubial spat. AS
J auth and his Liberal loyalists, me1
/ like Lord Grey and Sir John Simon
ironing the so-ealled Liberal SHADOW
cabinet" decided that the Welshmal
should be divorced and elected from
1.-THE Liberal household.
i The Wizard Returns.
i Liberalism in the country did no
lapprove these drastic tactics, and tn
National Liberal Club luncheon wa
to assure Lloyd George that tn
Liberals of London and the mas
of this famous club still cor
sidered him a pretty good fellow Lloy
George liked it. 1t was to him as tn
braeing air of his Welsh hills. 1t pu
radiance into his eyes, and deepene
his color, and loosened his arms. an
restored to hiR tongue its Wonted tone