Bigger? Better? Brighter?

In 1919, when Britons thirsted to hang the Kaiser, obliging Mr. David Lloyd George won a general election and three more years as Prime Minister by promising to do so.* Ever since 1922, when the fuzzy-haired Welsh Liberal was finally ousted by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, he has been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,/- decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor, where stanch Welsh neighbors can always be counted on to roar approval, Orator Lloyd George proposed to apply to Britain substantially the Roosevelt remedies (including a budget unbalanced by colossal public works) and appealed for support from all parties.

Until it could be seen whether this move would have "Hang the Kaiser" appeal or not, His Majesty's Government last week kept their fingers crossed. Mildly Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley chided: "Lloyd George really should call it a Bigger Deal or a Better Deal or a Brighter Deal but not a New Deal."

With Welshman David vowing to stump all Britain with his Deal, Scot James Ramsay MacDonald faced vociferous boos in his coal mining constituency, Seaham. Apropos of his bolt from Labor to found the National Government, the stubborn Prime Minister retorted to catcalls and hisses thus:

"I have already forfeited the confidence of a good many of you. I know I have, and it pains me very much to know it, but I will do it again for your sakes to avert a crisis which would increase your unemployment and reduce your wages."

*Secret U. S. State Department archives re-leased last week make clear that Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality."

After the Senate rebuffed the President, Secretary of State Lansing hastily cabled that "the United States will not at present support any demand for the extradition of the ex-Kaiser or participate in any way in his trial should it occur."

/-Himself, his daughter, his son and his son's brother-in-law.

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