Evening star., 1945-03-27
Churchill to Deliver
Formal EuIoey in
House of Commons
BY the Associated Press.

| FOrmal ceremonies IN AOnOr o,
the colorful statesman were planned
in the House of Commons where
Prime Minister Churchill, just re.
turned from a visit to the western
front, was expected to deliver {
formal tribute today or tomorrow
on behalf of the government.
Messages Pour in.
Viscount Cranborne, leader o
the House of Lords, will speak fol
the government there.
From all over the world messages
of coincidence poured in to the littl,
Welsh village of Ty Newydd Llany
stumdwy, where Lloyd George diee
quietly in his sleep at 855 last nigh
after an illness of several months
Villagers said the man who roSt
from poverty to become one of Eng.
lands greatest historical figure.
died as he had desired-in his pic
turesque 400-year-old farmhouse
near the Dwyfor River
1t was the name of this stream
from which Lloyd George took his
title-the Earl of Dwyfor-when he
was elevated to the peerage by King
George vi last New Year Day.
Stricken With Influenza.
The ex-Prime Minister, who never
had exercised his right to sit in the
House of Lords, returned to the
village of his birth last September
He was taken i'll with influenza II,
January and never had fully re-
covered.
Lloyd George died without know
ing that the Allied armies had
crossed the Rhine and that victory
for Britain and her allies was at
last clearly in sight. Because of
his weakened condition news of the
war had been kept from him in his
last days.
At his bedside when he died wa.
his second wife, the former Mis-.
Frances Stevenson, his secretary fol
80 years, whom he married in Oc.
tober, 1943. His first wife, Dame
Margaret Lloyd George, whom he
married in 1888 when he was ar
unknown solicitor, died in 194l.
Also keeping the vigil were his
daughters, Lady Megan and Lady
Carey Evans, and one of his two
sons-Maj. Gwilym Lloyd George
minister of fuel and power.
Will Be Buried Beside Dwyfor.
His heir, Maj. Richard Lloyd
George, Viscount Gwynedd, is i'll in
a North Wales sanatorium.
In accordance with his own wishes
the former Prime Minister will be
buried by the side of the Dwyfol
River, in a small wood overlooking
the stream and his old school. The
spot was one of his favorite play
grounds as boy.
The death of David Lloyd George
Earl of DWyfor, leaves alive only
one of that famous quartet who sal
around table in the Hall of Mir
rors at Versailles in 1918-19 ano
determined the destinies of millions
Woodrow Wilson, the idealist, ano
Georges Clemeneeau, Frances
tiger" passed two decades age
from the stage of human affairs
Vittorio Orlando of Italy alone sur
wives, a vague and shadowy figure
who long ago was submerged in the
Fascist wave. OF the four, Lloyd
George alone remained until shortly
before his death a vital force in
the political direction of a second
world war.
The 82-year-old Welshman who
started out in life as a cobbler's s
apprentice and ended it as a lord
of the realm retired from Commons
only last fall-and then reluctantly
on the advice of his physician. For
54 years he had sat in the mother
of parliaments."
AS his crown of iron gray hair
grew whittier and thinner, the role
that Great Britain's World War
Prime Minister played in Commons
became quieter. But, to the end OF
his services, he was a force to be
reckoned with. His bitter indictment
of Neville Chamberlain in 1910, fol-
lowing the tragic failure of Britain's
expedition to Norway, was viewed by
London newspapers as the final
blow which decided the Prime Min
ister's resignation.
Admired Churchill.
Lloyd George admired Winston
Churchill's vigor-so reminiscent OF
his own in earlier days. After
Churchill took over the direction OF
the war, he and the. aged Welshman
occasionally lunched together ano
the World War Premier was re.
strained in his criticisms of the
Churchill government.
Even so, he sometimes picked flaws
in specific Churchillian policies, ex-
ercising the prestige of an "elder
statesmen"
1t is difficult to realize it today
but in the 1905 when the young
Welshman first sat in Commons, his
espousal of such now settled insti.
tutions as social insurance marked
him in the eyes of most of his
countrymen as famboyant Boil
shevik. He lived to see virtually al
of the reforms for which he hao
fought adopted as normal part
of British life.
But it is as Britain's World Wal
leader during the dark days O.
1868 when the German armie.