Word: asquith
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...came out in favor of building a tariff wall around the Empire. Up to last week, so far as anyone knew, they were Free Traders. Mr. M'Kenna is a Liberal and the Liberal party is pledged to Free Trade. Mr. M'Kenna was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith's Coalition Cabinet (1915-16), a Free Trade affair. True, Mr. M'Kenna was the author of that half-hearted levy on imported products, the "M'Kenna duties," but they were carefully disguised by the term "luxury War taxes," and Chancellor M'Kenna would have been hooted, perhaps pelted...
Authoress Marthe Bibesco, not to be confused with her cousin. Princess Antoine Bibesco (nee Elizabeth, daughter of Margot Asquith), was born in Rumania, daughter of Jean Lahovary, onetime Rumanian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was educated in France. At 16 she married Prince Bibesco, head of the Bibesco family, accompanied him to Persia on a diplomatic mission. Like others of the Rumanian nobility, most notably Queen Marie, the Bibescoes will turn an adulant dollar out of democratic pockets. Princess Bibesco's first book, the Eight Paradises, written when she was 18, was crowned by the French Academy. Other...
Quietly but momentously the Lords had defied the Commons. So grave was the situation that a hasty night session of the Cabinet was called by Scot MacDonald and a pair of exciting rumors flew: first that the Prime Minister, like Asquith in 1911, would bring the Lords to heel by threatening to advise the King* to create enough new peers to override the votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure...
...Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election to the effect that our want of confidence in Mr. Lloyd George's leadership no longer existed. That...
...public went to see a momentous collection of Italian Renaissance paintings at Old Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 23). Notables had already swarmed through the galleries, among them the Philip Snowdens, Mrs. Winston Churchill, the Austen Chamberlains (she sponsored the show), the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Wellington, Margot Asquith. Mayfair booksellers announced an unprecedented sale of Italian art books. At this commercially auspicious moment, Art Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size...