David Lloyd George

The public they have to satisfy is small and sophisticated, the trade unions of the larger cities, and these working men demand above all else frankness and the unpowdered truth.

an address by lenin is therefore as direct unsentimental and full of facts as a statement to a board of directors by an executive of an american corporation the slow strong wants of the peasants have to be heeded too but they are simple wants land and free trade and do not yet touch intricate things remote from the daily life of the farm like foreign affairs and higher economics in the end the peasants will rule russia but to-day a public opinion is the opinion of the class-conscious workingmen of the cities therefore the leaders of russia can afford to be frank in western democracies politics is the art of seeming frank while not being so only three types of politicians ever emerge in the highest places first the statement of brilliant intellectual understanding like lloyd george who always knows what he ought to do and never does it until the public also comes to understand usually some months or years later second the sentimentalist who is always able to muddle an inconvenient understanding of facts and muffle his conscience with high-sounding principles that endear him to the public heart third the kindly blockhead who discovers what ought to be done just a little later than the public these types do not exist in russia the trade unions compel the russian politician to be a stark realist talking frankly acting on the best information he can obtain and giving that information fully to his public the leaders pictured in this book will seem therefore franker and more direct than the leaders of the western world they will also seem more desperate not because it is their natural character to be desperate but because they face as desperate a problem as ever strained the human brain they have been caught from the first on the horns of the revolutionary dilemma the same intolerable breakdown of economic life which alone makes revolution possible also predestines revolution to almost certain failure that dull beast the public will move to revolution only when life has become unbearable only when the established order has broken down so completely that ruins alone remain revolution does not come before ruin and to build on ruins a new and fairer life is a task almost beyond the powers of men so much of the exhausted energy of the nation must be consumed in re-establishing the mere fundamentals of life food shelter clothing and security from fear that little remains to attack the task of remoulding life in a shape that is closer to the heart's desire But to this task the leaders of Russia have dedicated their lives, and if they succeed or if they fail, they will be remembered always for their courage in following an ideal through destruction, famine, death, and the hatred of the world.

Here then they are, the Russians of today, close to the Tartar and the Cossack of the plain, children of serfs and Norsemen and Mongols, close to the earth and striving for the stars.

Louise Bryant Lenin and his subordinates Nikolai Lenin Lenin became an active revolutionist through the spiritual motives that have moved all great reformers.

There was one moment when the morale of the Red Army was exceedingly low, and when even the trusted Lettish sharpshooters guarding the Kremlin grew discouraged and sampled the wine in the Kremlin cellars to make life more interesting.

a let who went through these days told me an amazing story one night the old man himself came down to the barracks called the officers out felt in our pockets and finding one or two flasks of vodka smashed them on the cobblestones and went away without saying a word he only had to come once we were deeply ashamed how much truth there is in this story i do not know but it sounds so exactly like lenin that i am inclined to give it full accretance From this low ebb he built his power solidly, never forgetting to reckon on the peasants.

Now face to face at last with Mr. Lloyd George, Lenin is backed by a strong Red Army and a loyal staff.

From the moment he took office, Lenin never had a serious political rival, and the blockade bestowed on him a peculiar legendary significance, which will remain with him as long as he does not leave Russia.

His two mistresses were both conspicuously,

obviously borderlines, David Lloyd George, various others.

Then I looked at women just in the modern day in the arts, so Sylvia Plath, Sinead O'Connor, Sarah Kane, who is a British playwright, Princess Diana, so this is the modern day great man, great man's woman borderline.

So you have that.

The catalyst for our present-day conflict had emerged.

This motion was supported by Winston Churchill, as well as Prime Minister Lloyd George and Arthur J. Balfour, who were both fervent Christians, keen to turn biblical prophecy into reality.

But some were wary of Britain's arrogant kingmaking, like former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.

I do not recognise that the connection of the Jews with Palestine, which terminated 1,200 years ago, gives them any claim whatsoever.

The debate features a series of astonishingly good speeches, of which Amory's is the one that's most often quoted.

But there's an astonishing one by Lloyd George, former prime minister as well.

And actually Churchill's winding up speech, Churchill at this point is in the government, Churchill's winding up speech, for the government is also really impressive.

And it's an example, and this is a rare example, but it does happen, of how the speeches in the Commons can occasionally change the mood.

No government can prosecute a war efficiently unless it has public and parliamentary support.

And I call on my friends to support us in the lobby tonight.

And then this was former Prime Minister Lloyd George responding with this devastating line, again voiced by an actor.

It is not a question of who are the Prime Minister's friends.

Caernarfon Castle being in northwest Wales, originally established by Edward I to subdue the Welsh.

Now, this ceremony was invented by the then Prime Minister Lloyd George, and he invented this peculiar sort of pantomime ceremony, which was part Welsh pageant, part medieval cosplay, and part sort of Ruritanian royal fantasy.

And this peculiar ceremony persisted Right up to the modern age, I remember as a schoolboy watching the investiture of the Prince of Wales, the future King Charles III, where there were still all these vestiges of this weird old ceremony that Lloyd George had invented, including a sort of knight's tent, a medieval knight's tent, which had been redesigned by Lord Snowdon for Charles's ceremony, with this weird sort of perspex box inside.

which is the only thing I really vividly remember from that ceremony.

One of the things Prince Edward had to do was to learn a few lines of Welsh, which is a pretty tricky language to get your head around if you're not a native who's been brought up speaking it.

They felt that the Allies had deceived them, had abandoned all notions of honour by treating them as a conquered people when they didn't think they were.

The things that had been promised to them, specifically by President Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George, had not been delivered.

Instead, they'd been violated, their honour had been degraded.

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