Word: monde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, the triumvirate at the head of the Liberal Party has long consisted of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith (official leader), Mr. Lloyd George (leader by popular consent) and Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, famed Jewish chemical industrialist, who served as Commissioner of Works and later as Minister of Health in Premier George's Cabinet...
Last week the Earl of Oxford and Asquith ripped open a long, ominous-looking envelope; gave vent to several expressions almost as pungent as those for which his wife "Margot" is famous. Before him lay the resignation from the Liberal party of Sir Alfred Mond, with the added declaration that Sir Alfred will hereafter consider himself a Conservative, and the explanation that he has taken this action because the Land Tenure Reform scheme to which Mr. Lloyd George has pledged the Liberals (TIME, Dec. 12 et ante) amounts, in Sir Alfred's opinion, to "nationalization of agricultural lands...
...brand the Liberal Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward for not carrying out his threat to split the party...
...Alfred Mond, Liberal, asked...
...Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Alfred Mond and Viscountess Astor followed. The first dwelt on the psychological effects of the Singapore base on the Japanese; the second called the naval estimates a sham; the third thought that the Army and the Navy should be strong enough to secure peace...