15 OCTOBER 1932, Page 6

Was it a coincidence or not, by the way, that

Mr. Lloyd George should have been making an important speech on disarmament to the Peace Society (not normally the most commanding of platforms) just three hours before the time of the Queen's Hall meeting ? Old political hands have not forgotten Rosebery's " lonely furrow " speech in 1901. In July of that year a party dinner to Mr. Asquith was arranged at the City Liberal Club. Roscbery, who was out of humour with Mr. A., not only declined an invitation to preside; but actually made a speech in the luncheon-hour at the same club on the same day, declaring his intention to plough his furrow atone. I should like to know what the chronology of the Queen's Hall fixture and L. G.'s acceptance of the Peace Society's invitation was.