Word: asquith
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...haired Liberals of international fame aired publicly last week the great party schism which has slowly widened between them since the Boer War. Even at that period Mr. Lloyd George?an irrepressible pro-Boer "was attempting to lead the Liberal party leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began...
This exalted spat between two once omnipotent statesmen burst forth when the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the Liberal party, set out to give to Lloyd George, Liberal leader by popular consent, a reprimand and dressing down for his pro-Laborite attitude during the great "general strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24). In a letter released to the press last week the Earl loftily informed Mr. George that he "regretted" the Welshman's conduct in denouncing the Baldwin Government's handling of the strike. More especially the Earl stigmatized Mr. George's refusal to attend...
...marriage* to Hannah, only daughter and heiress of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild, in the presence of the Prince of Wales and many another. Mr. Gladstone passed on the torch of Liberalism to Lord Rosebery as perhaps his chief henchman, and from him it descended via Mr. Asquith to David Lloyd George. By way of picturesque funereal climax, the Earl of Rosebery served as pallbearer to Mr. Gladstone, to poet Tennyson, to painter Millais...
...everyone knows, the triumvirate at the head of the Liberal Party has long consisted of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (official leader), Mr. Lloyd George (leader by popular consent) and Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, famed Jewish chemical industrialist, who served as Commissioner of Works and later as Minister of Health in Premier George's Cabinet...
Last week the Earl of Oxford and Asquith ripped open a long, ominous-looking envelope; gave vent to several expressions almost as pungent as those for which his wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands...