THE LIFE OF LLOYD GEORGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1919, Page 6

THE LIFE OF LLOYD GEORGE.

ROMANTIC HISTORY OP THIS P'ILML Ml.-IWrER. Mr. Harold Bogbie, describing the historic scenes aL the Lord Mayer'.; qr.et drew this picture oi iii'i Prime Miufgrer's romance: "His lather was a villi,;.o scliool-wos-ter, who died and lef; ;vre .nd -:i ildren to the mercies of chance. Au uncle received that littie homelos.; family onder bin Tocf, and to earn bread for th.'jn worked harder than ever fit hii w'oW.'r's bench. "David stood beside bis toiling uncle learning the great organ rmui-; ■ ! the English Bible; the old man won!.: in his work to read a an J Hie boy would repeat it after him. And behind the ship, DavidV mviher, i.-i tiie kitchen was striving so to tco>!<.mi»e this and that that she mlgnc. have a sixpence over at the end of the week. 'Tliat was icy mother's *ife,' be once told me; 'a never-ending anxiety to have sixpence of my uncle's money sav-:'l at the end of each weeh It is the life o: the Poor' ' This little l)avid ot tile U'cLa lil)!u, more than any one man in the world, has destroyed the Goliath oi PrussianISO He stands in the Guildhall telling mankind that the Rohenzoilerm have gone, that great and illustrious family whose pride had become immeasurable., and whose shining sword lias seemed but four short months ago invincible, facing him are the statues of Wellington and .Nelson, all round those grey wails hang the gay banners of the Free Nations, and he is the voice of destiny in that ancient place of civic splendour and outworn pageantry, this cobbler's nephew telling ua that the Hohcnzollerns are gone—gone for ever! Wlu", a romance!" —Daily Chronicle.