Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that England holds the country and is responsible for what law there is in it. She is attempting to maintain the law with a system of cruelty and killing by the official police. It is explained that such acts are reprisals and are justified. "In speaking of reprisals, Mr. Lloyd George argued that the police would not bomb houses and shoot men if there was no provocation." Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, defended the Government's actions by saying that "while the Asquithians put the emphasis on the reprisals, I put it on the provocation...
...America to England, 1670-1920" will be the subject of the poems for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize this year. The prize consists of $125 and a silver modal for "the best poem on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a Committee of the Department of English...
...death of Lord Mayor MacSwiney in an English prison was indeed an unfortunate event for the Lloyd George Government, and one not calculated to restore peace in Ireland. Aside from the excellent point made by Mr Ferguson in today's Crimson, there is the Cuestion of what effect the death of the Lord Mayor will have on the minds of many people. Among those who have always been pro-Sinn Fein, it will serve only to intensify their bitter hatred of England, but the greatest effect will be upon the minds of those who are friendly to the British Empire...
...again assuming my self-appointed and totally obnoxious duty of correcting your very recent history, this time in connection with the British coal strike. In an editorial on this topic you said that Premier Lloyd George offered to submit the question under dispute to arbitration, but that the miners, contrary even to the advice of their leaders, refused. On the very face of it, from the newspaper reports that both sides were still open to negotiations the first part of the statement may be branded as false. Then besides, let me refer you to the truth: A report has actually...
...Great Britain, however, Mr. Lloyd George is as strong as ever. There have been railway strikes, factory strikes, and, as at present, coal strikes; there have come up for settlement the Irish problem, the Polish question, delicate relations with France on the German question, and other foreign complications. Lloyd George remains in control. When the smoke screen has cleared, when the events and issues of the present period shall have become history, the British Premier will stand out as one of the shrewdest politicians and ablest states men of all time...