"Curled Lip" v. "Hirst"

A fierce Welsh roasting was what David Lloyd George gave last week to cucumber-cool Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the sacrosanct London Times. The Times has deplored Mr. Lloyd George's feature-writing for William Randolph Hearst. Recently the Times dug back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused the Times of "garbling"' his eight-year-old words. Said he: "After I called your attention to these perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite--silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited as it is by Mr. Brisbane, one of the most brilliant publicists in the world. I challenge you to produce from the Hirst newspapers such a gross example of journalistic dishonesty as I have now exposed." Editor Dawson's retorts: 1) He printed the Lloyd George letter as received with the misspelling "Hirst"; 2) He commented: "Mr. Lloyd George cannot be allowed these extravagances, even if Saturday was his [68th] birthday."

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