Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE (Vol. I & II, 1914-16)-Little, Brown ($4 each...
Nearly everyone who won the War has now been heard from. The mysterious and importunate friend who always urges statesmen to write their memoirs has finally prevailed on David Lloyd George. His first two fat volumes (918 pp.), telling his side of the story through 1916, are written with that shrewd candor and political zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer at the outbreak of the War, Lloyd George was not at first directly concerned with military policy. But he soon made it his business, and from the time he became Minister of Munitions until in 1916 he forced out the Coalition Government and got the Premiership himself, he fought a spirited battle with the War Office. He proves by the record that he was against the disastrous Dardanelles campaign and the mismanaged affair in Mesopotamia; that as early as January 1, 1915 he saw the hopelessness of the stalemate on the Western Front, and urged...
...could not be made to see the necessity of increasing supplies of heavy guns and high explosives, objecting to them obstinately on the grounds of unnecessary expense. An almost speaking photograph shows "Papa" Joffre and Haig behind the lines at the Battle of the Somme, excitedly pointing out to Lloyd George, who stares at them skeptically, that as soon as the imminent break-through is made, their massed cavalry will charge and demolish the Germans. One of the many muddies Lloyd George reveals is that as late as 1915 the Allies were bidding up the price of T.N.T...
Though he usually keeps his temper when paying his respects, Lloyd George never conceals his real opinion of his colleagues. Kitchener he kindly calls "one of the unsolved mysteries of the war." After Neuve Chapelle, he says, Kitchener groaned not over the casualties but the wasted shells. Of Balfour he says: "[The Admiralty] was an office that called for unceasing attention to detail. It meant long hours, early and late. Mr. Balfour was obviously unsuitable for such a post...