Word: bonar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loquacity of Lloyd George assumed a tone of despondency. Speaking at a luncheon given in his honor by the National Liberals in the House of Commons, he remarked: "I view the future with despair." He denounced the Bonar Law Government in strong terms and prophesied that their inanimate policy regarding the Ruhr would soon bring about their fall. "The Government is rapidly losing prestige," said he. "Its supporters are discouraged." He also urged the coalition of the Liberal parties (his own and Asquith's) as necessary to fight revolutionary labor...
...House Sir John Simon (Asquith liberal) asked "whether happy acquiescence is still to be the keynote of British policy? " Mr. Asquith and Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, former Minister of Education, also criticized the Government's policy toward the Ruhr. Mr. Bonar Law did not reply, but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Government, stated that its policy was unchanged and that mediation in the Ruhr was at present impossible. On a division of the House, ostensibly on account of a civil service vote, the Government secured a majority of only...
...Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey complied with the request made by the Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Asquith, Bonar Law-three past and one present Prime Minister-and Lord Grey-former Foreign Secretary-to erect a memorial to the war-time American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...United States had made it clear that it would not offer mediation until France should indicate officially that she would welcome such an action. In England the position is much the same. In spite of great pressure from the opposition to intervene, Bonar Law, British Premier, has stated that Britain would not take the initiative in any attempt to settle the Ruhr dispute...
Charles M. Schwab: "I arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having cut short my trip to Europe because of illness. Although I was ill most of the time, I got the impression from informal chats with Lloyd George, Bonar Law, and Marshal Foch that Europe will come out all right...