6 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 9

My Dear Pussy...

No man has a right to imperil his political party and its objectives for the sake of a woman

That was what Lloyd George told Miss Frances Stevenson, his secretary and mistress during the great years of his career.

Frances Stevenson accepted Lloyd George's ruling that there must be no divorce, no publio scandal.

But throughout these tumultuous years, when she was his secretary—and much more— she kept a diary.

It presents an intriguing picture of a Prime Minister coping simultaneously with high affairs of State and the problems of his personal life.

It is the most intimate picture of a major British statesman which has ever been drawn : a political and human document unique in this century.

THE STEVENSON DIARIES by Frances Stevenson—whom Lloyd George sometimes called " My Dear Pussy "—begins this Sunday in the

SUNDAY EXPRESS