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...when Britons thirsted to hang the Kaiser, obliging Mr. David Lloyd George won a general election and three more years as Prime Minister by promising to do so.* Ever since 1922, when the fuzzy-haired Welsh Liberal was finally ousted by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, he has been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor...
Until it could be seen whether this move would have "Hang the Kaiser" appeal or not, His Majesty's Government last week kept their fingers crossed. Mildly Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley chided: "Lloyd George really should call it a Bigger Deal or a Better Deal or a Brighter Deal but not a New Deal...
...Secret U. S. State Department archives re-leased last week make clear that Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality...
...excitedly shouted the leader of one group, Farmer Hans Dietz, a brisk little peasant with acres 60 miles south of Chicago. "Mr. Hitler is no more important than any American politician! We are Americans, first and last, and would go back to the Saar to vote even if the Kaiser was on his throne. There is nothing un-American about this...
When Mr. Pipp acquired a daughter, a magnificent creature with a bust, a pompadour, and a Grecian profile (see cut), Charles Dana Gibson became world-famed. No U.S. illustrator has ever had such a vogue. Collier's paid him $100,000 for a series of drawings. The Kaiser gave the Gibson Girl his official approval. There were songs about la fille Gibson on the Paris boulevards. A framed Gibson girl was as important to the U.S. undergraduate of 30 years ago as a bulldog pipe and a pearl-buttoned reefer...