Word: asquithian
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...Prime Minister. The House of Lords had refused Mr. Asquith's Parliament bill, designed to remove the Lords' veto power over "money bills." Mr. Asquith announced that unless the Lords voted the Parliament bill he would "advise" George V to create as many new peers of Asquithian persuasion as might be needed to pass the bill. Their Lordships, knowing that the King would do as Mr. Asquith might advise, avoided the issue, yielded...
...true middle ground of British opinion was perhaps taken by the Daily Chronicle, a newspaper directed by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, and other Liberals of the vanishing Gladstonian-Asquithian stamp. "We can assure our American friends," pontificated the Chronicle, "that they ought not attribute this faux pas to wickedness, but only to the stupidity of our Ministers...
...Read a scathing speech delivered by Viscount Grey of Fallodon at a banquet of Asquithian Liberals, in which their total rupture with the Lloyd George Liberal faction (TIME, Oct. 25) was reaffirmed...
...causing such fury in Ulster that Britain was saved from civil war only by the distraction provided by the World War. He was unhorsed as Premier (1916) by Lloyd George who cleverly made it appear that Britain's early defeats in the World War were due to Asquithian blundering. He lost his seat in the Commons (1918) as Premier Lloyd George swept the country with his "Hang the Kaiser" campaign, but resumed his seat in the House (1920) and leadership of the Liberal Party. Later he made peace with Mr. Lloyd George in the year following the letter...
...Most of her recent articles, as in the present instance, are Liberal propaganda. She conceives it to be her duty to smile upon her husband's colleagues and to shoot malignant darts at the leaders of the parties in opposition to the Asquithian Liberals...
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