Monday, May. 05, 1924

An Irreconcilable

During the Parliamentary recess, ex-Premier David Lloyd George . found time to scurry back to Wales and, inhaling there his native air he became frisky, allowed his political tail to wag him and demonstrated, as he has often done before, that his bark is worse than his bite.

Speaking at Llanfair Fechan, he told the people that the Labor leaders were assuming the "airs of Eastern potentates," inferring that Premier MacDonald was intoxicated by the importance of his position.

"For people who are not accustomed to it office is a very heady wine. Let Ramsay MacDonald wrap a wet towel round his brow and think. . . .

"No self-respecting party can go on supporting a government that treats them in the way Labor treats the Liberal party. . . .

Discussing the inner significance of the Lloyd Georgian tactics, J.L. Garvin, famed editor of The Observer, Conservative London Sunday paper, said:

"It becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes--never omitted --had challenged a retort."