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Some thirty Liberal M. P.'s led by Sir John Simon founded the National Liberal Party last week "to give firm support to the Prime Minister as head of the National Government and for the purpose of fighting in a general election." Major Gwilym Lloyd George, M. P. (loyal son) promptly resigned his minor post in the Government (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in protest. Miss Megan Lloyd George M. P. (loyal daughter) began her campaign for re-election with this shrill cry: "I shall fight on as a Liberal?under the same leader?Lloyd George!" Invalid Lloyd...
...proper, the post of Lord Privy Seal, which some observers had believed was being saved for David Lloyd George, was awarded last week to the Conservative Earl Peel. Ramsay MacDonald's son Malcolm was made Under Secretary for the Dominions and Colonies. David Lloyd George's son, Gwilym, was made Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade...
...government benches will sit his son, Malcolm. With Malcolm, looking across at his overthrown Conservative father, will be Oliver Baldwin, son of Stanley. Sharing Lloyd George's balance-of-power on the Liberal benches will be the Welshman's round-faced daughter, Megan, and his son, Major Gwilym...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...
Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...