Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold Spender, British journalist and biographer of ex-Premier Lloyd George, made the statement (in a signed article in The New York World and other papers) that the late ex-President Wilson and ex-Premier Clemenceau of France took advantage of his temporary absence in England to sign a secret agreement at Paris, allowing France to occupy the Rhineland for 15 years. Mr. George was quoted as adding: "Yet I have always been attacked by many people in England as the villain of that piece." After a pause Mr. George was alleged to have continued: "Yes, I have just received...
...TIGER" CLEMENCEAU: "If Lloyd George will produce a secret agreement between Wilson and me, I will pay the reparations...
...TARDIEU, French Deputy: "Lloyd George has lied and lied, without intelligence. . . . The interview is the fruit of a delirious imagination. There never was a secret agreement between Clemenceau and Wilson. . . . To qualify as a secret agreement a project which was for six weeks in the hands of the British delegation as well as the American delegation . . . is either an inept or malevolent procedure?perhaps both...
BERNARD M. BARUCH, adviser to President Wilson on financial questions at Paris: "President Wilson never made any secret compact with anybody about anything at the Paris Peace Conference. . . . I don't know just what Mr. Lloyd George refers to. Let him produce the documents, if he believes there was a 'secret compact.' But I do not hesitate to make explicit denial, because I know Mr. Wilson never was a party to and never had any secret compacts whatever over there...
...would deprive the Navy of one of its principal sources of oil fuel and would force the country to depend on foreign oil companies. (There was a rumor that the Labor Government would sell this stock.) ¶ John Hodge, prominent Laborite and ex-Minister of Labor and Pensions under Lloyd George, said: "The great combines which are being formed in this and other countries are simply an evolutionary process and as soon as the steel, iron and tinplate works are all in one big combine it will be easy to socialize...