Word: asquiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once great, now dwindling, Liberal party continued rent (TIME, June 7) last week as Lloyd George, Liberal leader in the Commons, was further baited in letters to the press by Lord Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the party...
That this was no empty boast was apparent from the action taken by a meeting of 34 Liberal M. P's, a majority of whom indicated by their speeches that they would back Lloyd George against Lord Oxford and Asquith in the event of a formal Liberal split...
Numerous British newspapers declared this letter "the most severe public rebuke ever administered by the leader of a British political party to its chief adherent." The fact that Lord Oxford and Asquith alleged as the cause of this extraordinary rebuff only a trifling party insubordination and an attack upon the Government (Conservative) party toward which the Earl has leaned so long, while Mr. George, tugged in the opposite direction, revealed the true origin of the Earl's spleen?exposed anew the gaping Liberal rift...
...George who strategically controls the Liberal war chest?the Asquithians being relatively without campaign funds?countered at once last week by releasing a letter to Lord Oxford and Asquith in which he referred to the latter's "provocative" communication to himself, defended his own strike-time conduct as "for what I considered the good of my countrymen," and concluded by demanding: "If there has to be another schism in the Liberal party, one would like to know what it is about...
...This cumbersome title represents a neat straddle. Mr. Asquith would have been honored out of all proportion to his services to the Crown had he received the earldom of Oxford, originally conferred by the Empress Matilda on Aubrey de Vere in 1142 and accordingly weighted with hoary honors beyond expression. By adding "and Asquith," the powers-that-be adroitly earmarked as of recent bestowal a title held in its day by what Macaulay described as "the most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen...