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Your assessment of Britain's economic and political difficulties must not be allowed to remain flawed by the statement that Liberals have "never" held power. Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George were among the Prime Ministers who headed Liberal or Liberal-dominated governments. An ideological split in 1918 was the cause of the decline of the Liberals, which in turn resulted in the rise of the Labor Party. If the present schism in the Labor Party continues, the centrist Liberal Party may yet prove to be a political phoenix...
...staunch a Liberal as Winston was a Tory. Yet, as Soames tells it, his political career benefited greatly from the shrewdness and discretion of his "Clemmie." When Churchill was removed from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, Clementine wrote Prime Minister Asquith an anguished protest: "Winston may in your eyes ... have faults but he has the supreme quality which I venture to say very few of your present or future Cabinet possess-the power, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany." Her further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly breaking with...
...Earrings of Madame De... is a beautiful, refined story with counts and barons and ballroom scenes, staircases and grand entrances, but a lot to say about this ethereal world. It plays tonight with Letter From an Unknown Woman with Joan Fontaine and Louis Jordan. and starting Sunday, Asquith's version of Pygmallon, with Leslie Howard playing Higgins young and tough-as-nails, which sometimes works well. Wendy hiller's Eliza Doolittle is absolutely amazing. Playing with arguably Katherine Hepburn's best work, Summertime, seldom shown. When Hepburn talked to Cavett in those interviews, Summertime was the film she remembered best...
...similar crisis developed in Britain in 1911 after the House of Lords summarily vetoed the domestic reforms of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. The constitutional confrontation was resolved when King George V, fearing a fatal blow to British democracy from the House of Lords, threatened to appoint enough new Lords to give Asquith a majority. The Lords gave in to the King's pressure, and since then the power of the House of Commons has never been seriously questioned...
...Thorpe sounded a little self-satisfied, he had good reason. He and his colleagues pulled off something of a political miracle, taking little more than the name of a once great institution - the party of William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George - and making it once again a force to be reckoned with in British politics. "This election was the most exciting thing you can imagine after 40 years in the wilderness," Thorpe says. "This may seem like a new party to the young people who are coming in, but to me it is a real tradition that has been...