Word: caernarvon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countrymen called him "L.G.," and there were many who would add "the man who won the last war." Three generations of his neighbors in Caernarvon village had known him as "the little Welsh wizard," still talked of him as a statesman in his prime. But David Lloyd George, 82 years old this month, realized that 54 straight years in Britain's House of Commons was enough, and said so. A grateful government rewarded him with an earldom...
...Christmas Eve he called Emlyn P. Evans, chairman of the Caernarvon Liberal Association, to his Criccieth home. There, amid the gold-&-silver mementos filling the room, the great little man with the flowing white mane and piercing blue eyes announced his decision. He was going to take his doctors' advice; he would not contest the next election. Caernarvon would have to find another candidate...
After the war, with the political changes which disrupted his Liberal Party, Lloyd George receded to a position without exact parallel in U.S. political life. Still a great figure, he was nevertheless without tangible power or political organization. His only political role was that of M.P. for Caernarvon, Wales, the district he had represented since 1890. Now 80, Lloyd George can still speak with authority, though he speaks for himself and not for a powerful party or bloc...