The Archive · 1931

The Old Fighter

The resignation of Mi, David

Lloyd George from the. chairmanship of the Parliamentary" Barry" the' natural sequel to the. crushing defeat which the remnants ofthe party' under his leadership sustain: fdvat the recent general election. oes not apparently, indicate In any Sense" his possible retirement from Polities, and in this respect tts Possible to. be grat Hhought that restoration to health will See him back, again. on his old Tautle "ground, ether there. is agreement resent "jolisies or his sections past, nothing "can diminish the respect' generally felt for the forty-one. years) service which Tendered the. country, The quotation from his loiter of Fesigni ton indicates thay there" is lent of fight in the old warrior yet. fs, however, to be "regretted that the Prime "Minister Wil' mop have the assistance of 30 prominent. figure' in the contemporaneous story of Great Britain: indeed. he will Apparently have hig se tive opposition, for whatever" that may So'worth, in the House of Commont eis now conatitoteds but short litle dilute to th all his brilliance, Tore than- a stall Yoleo erying in the wilderness" of Uisappointed Liberal hope

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