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...George, who inherited his passionate attachment to the underdog, serving in Parliament for 31 years, first as a reform-minded Liberal M.P. from North Wales, then in 1955 bolting her father's party, which she felt was too right-wing, to become a Labor M.P.; of cancer; in Criccieth, Wales...
...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...
Died. Dame Margaret Lloyd George, 77, three days after Husband David's 78th birthday; at Criccieth, Caernarvonshire, Wales. They had been married 53 years. Mercurial Lloyd George once jocularly observed: "One of us is contentious, combative, stormy. That is my wife. Then there is the other partner-placid, calm, peaceable, and patient. That...
...Lloyd George] has now received an ultimatum from a substantial and influential section of his party, that, whatever he does, they mean to keep Labor in office. The 'Chameleon of Criccieth' has dealt a heavy blow at the unity of his own party...
...chimney. In another speech he said: "The Government (Protectionist) want us to shoot Niagara. We've asked for time to consider it, but they say: 'No, jump in; you will have plenty of time to think it over between the falls and the whirlpool.'" At Criccieth in Wales, Mr. George became bitter when he referred to Conservative posters depicting him as a "vain talker": "There is no party from which that charge comes with such ill favor as from the Tory Party. Were they of that opinion from 1914 to 1918? My recollection is that they were...
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