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CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEPUBLISHER'S NOTE vINTRODUCTION viiI.--MR. LLOYD GEORGE 1II.--LORD CARNOCK 19III.--LORD FISHER 29IV.--MR. ASQUITH 39V.--LORD NORTHCLIFFE 49VI.--MR. ARTHUR BALFOUR 59VII.--LORD KITCHENER 71VIII.--LORD ROBERT CECIL 85IX.--MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL 97X.--LORD HALDANE 109XI.--LORD RHONDDA 123XII.--LORD INVERFORTH 135XIII.--LORD LEVERHULME 151XIV.--CONCLUSION 163CHAPTER IMR. LLOYD GEORGE _And wars, like mists that rise against the sun, Made him but greater seem, not greater grow._ DRYDEN.If you think about it, no one since Napoleon has appeared on the earthwho attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George. This is arather startling thought.It is significant, I think, how completely a politician shouldovershadow all the great soldiers and sailors charged with theirnation's very life in the severest and infinitely the most criticalmilitary struggle of man's history.A democratic age, lacking in colour, and antipathetic to romance,somewhat obscures for us the pictorial achievement of this remarkablefigure. He lacks only a crown, a robe, and a gilded chair easily tooutshine in visible picturesqueness the great Emperor. His achievement,when we consider what hung upon it, is greater than Napoleon's, thenarrative of his origin more romantic, his character more complex. Andyet who does not feel the greatness of Napoleon?--and who does notsuspect the shallowness of Mr. Lloyd George?History, it is certain, will unmask his pretensions to grandeur with arough, perhaps with an angry hand; but all the more because of thisunmasking posterity will continue to crowd about the exposed heroasking, and perhaps for centuries continuing to ask, questionsconcerning his place in the history of the world. How came it, man ofstraw, that in Armageddon there was none greater than you?The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ forexample, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion whichbestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster,who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played inthe street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements ofcivilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to abreathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a briefand contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world'sstage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns--those ancient, long glorious,and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history ofEurope.Such topsy-turvydom, such historical anarchy, tilts the figure of Mr.Lloyd George into a salience so conspicuous that for a moment one istempted to confuse prominence with eminence, and to mistake the slagheapof upheaval for the peaks of Olympus. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, SAP Digital >16<

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CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEPUBLISHER'S NOTE vINTRODUCTION viiI.--MR. LLOYD GEORGE 1II.--LORD CARNOCK 19III.--LORD FISHER 29IV.--MR. ASQUITH 39V.--LORD NORTHCLIFFE 49VI.--MR. ARTHUR BALFOUR 59VII.--LORD KITCHENER 71VIII.--LORD ROBERT CECIL 85IX.--MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL 97X.--LORD HALDANE 109XI.--LORD RHONDDA 123XII.--LORD INVERFORTH 135XIII.--LORD LEVERHULME 151XIV.--CONCLUSION 163CHAPTER IMR. LLOYD GEORGE _And wars, like mists that rise against the sun, Made him but greater seem, not greater grow._ DRYDEN.If you think about it, no one since Napoleon has appeared on the earthwho attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George. This is arather startling thought.It is significant, I think, how completely a politician shouldovershadow all the great soldiers and sailors charged with theirnation's very life in the severest and infinitely the most criticalmilitary struggle of man's history.A democratic age, lacking in colour, and antipathetic to romance,somewhat obscures for us the pictorial achievement of this remarkablefigure. He lacks only a crown, a robe, and a gilded chair easily tooutshine in visible picturesqueness the great Emperor. His achievement,when we consider what hung upon it, is greater than Napoleon's, thenarrative of his origin more romantic, his character more complex. Andyet who does not feel the greatness of Napoleon?--and who does notsuspect the shallowness of Mr. Lloyd George?History, it is certain, will unmask his pretensions to grandeur with arough, perhaps with an angry hand; but all the more because of thisunmasking posterity will continue to crowd about the exposed heroasking, and perhaps for centuries continuing to ask, questionsconcerning his place in the history of the world. How came it, man ofstraw, that in Armageddon there was none greater than you?The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ forexample, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion whichbestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster,who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played inthe street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements ofcivilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to abreathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a briefand contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world'sstage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns--those ancient, long glorious,and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history ofEurope.Such topsy-turvydom, such historical anarchy, tilts the figure of Mr.Lloyd George into a salience so conspicuous that for a moment one istempted to confuse prominence with eminence, and to mistake the slagheapof upheaval for the peaks of Olympus. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, SAP Digital >16<

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