Word: welshman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the final debate on third reading began, Liberal Lloyd George gave Laborite MacDonald renewed assurance that his Party would not let the Government down so long as the Naval Conference lasted. Several times the Welshman has seemed to be weakening on this assurance, but last week he stood firm and Laborites smacked the Bill through...
...England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part of the Empire to enter our ports duty free...
While last week's explosives were detonating below him, David Lloyd George was happily celebrating his 67th birthday. But most politically wise Britons surmised that the cocky little Welshman would think up plenty of drastic things to say about Viscount Grey's disturbance. Few if any could have foreseen the nature of his remarks. Summoning a meeting of the National Liberal Club, he extended toward his assailant a rhetorical glad hand which smacked much more of a rebuke than any amount of invective. Said he: "I appeal to Lord Grey not to discourage the party when...