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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wets tried to press their advantage. Senator Bruce and Senator Edge would like a national referendum on prohibition. (It is doubtful if any legal way could be found to bring about such a referendum.) An apparently unusual event occurred?Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the Democratic leader, indorsed this idea. The current explanation of Mr. Robinson's support of the proposal is that he regards himself as a presidential candidate for 1928, and wants, to dodge the prohibition issue by a referendum or its promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A Turmoil | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Senator Willis: "How fortunate it was for the country that at its head was to be found this quiet, industrious, painstaking, courageous leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Memoriam | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...Even at that period Mr. Lloyd George?an irrepressible pro-Boer "was attempting to lead the Liberal party leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began in earnest. Latterly this once great party has declined to political insignificance. Last week Asquithians and Georgians vociferated over an issue of molehill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Schism Among Shadows | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

This exalted spat between two once omnipotent statesmen burst forth when the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the Liberal party, set out to give to Lloyd George, Liberal leader by popular consent, a reprimand and dressing down for his pro-Laborite attitude during the great "general strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24). In a letter released to the press last week the Earl loftily informed Mr. George that he "regretted" the Welshman's conduct in denouncing the Baldwin Government's handling of the strike. More especially the Earl stigmatized Mr. George's refusal to attend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Schism Among Shadows | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Numerous British newspapers declared this letter "the most severe public rebuke ever administered by the leader of a British political party to its chief adherent." The fact that Lord Oxford and Asquith alleged as the cause of this extraordinary rebuff only a trifling party insubordination and an attack upon the Government (Conservative) party toward which the Earl has leaned so long, while Mr. George, tugged in the opposite direction, revealed the true origin of the Earl's spleen?exposed anew the gaping Liberal rift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Schism Among Shadows | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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