Word: asquith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conservatives have decided to wait the test of strength until the vote of censure next Wednesday. Or, falling that, as they will unless supported by Asquith's failing Liberals, they will wait until the Anglo Russian treaty comes up in November. Mr. Asquith's stand against the proposed Russian treaty may force him to throw down the Labor government this week, but the evident Liberal weakness in the recent by elections may induce him to refrain from forcing a general election at present especially since Premier MacDonald would certainly place the issue before the electors...
Churchill. Following ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith's blunt excoriation of the Anglo-Russian Treaty as "a crude experiment in nursery diplomacy," Winston Churchill, brilliant factotum to Governments, whose political credo now transcends mere party politics (he seceded from the Liberals and is denied membership with the Conservatives), presented a clear picture of the predominant issue of the generally envisaged general elections. Said he, speaking at Edinburgh...
...Margot Asquith contributed an article* to a London magazine, took some potshots at British political heroes past and present: Of Lloyd George, ex-Premier. "Lloyd George loves a crowd more than himself. He has more ideas and treats them with fickle and impartial humor." Of Lord Curzon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. "His natural self made many friends in his youth, but for some unknown reason he grafted onto that brilliant and hospitable self a certain ceremonious nonconducting personality which estranges intimacy and his sense of humor-which is of the highest quality-never has been focused...
...mouth and held it up in the air to decide which way the political wind was blowing. He decided that a gentle zephyr was blowing, favorable to Liberalism, so he virtually gave notice to the British public, probably with the counsel of his titular chief, ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith, that a general election was to be held at the end of the year...
...chosen for the post of Secretary General because he had no pretension to statesmanship. At one time or another he has been in close touch with Premiers Balfour and Asquith and with Sir Edward (now Viscount) Grey. From this experience he has learned how to use men and how to execute orders. He has tremendous sympathy with new ideas and is a sound judge of human character, knows how far and how much a man could be depended upon. He is "the one man that could be relied upon to run the League without dominating it," and that...