Lord Grey of Fallodon and Mr. Lloyd George On Tuesday
Lord Grey of Fallodon made one of his too infrequent speeches which invariably contribute to serious thinking and reaffirm threatened standards of restraint and respectability in political life. When Lord Grey of Fallodon was a young member of the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone, in discussing the merits of the Liberal Parliamentary recruits, used to declare that Sir Edward Grey had above all his contemporaries the gift of " the true Parliamentary manner." In vain Mr. Gladstone's collocutors would protest that this or that rising young man had grace, wit, eloquence or fancifulness. Mr. Gladstone stuck to his point. Sir Edward Grey was the coming man among them all. Surely he was justified. Lord Grey of Fallodon has never made a speech in which the attentive reader could not find a perfectly disinterested mind at work even when the speaker seemed ostensibly to be representing only the Liberal Party. The arts of the political climber, the opportunist and the political strate- gist have always been foreign to Lord Grey's disposition. His patience when waiting for his Party's turn was un- rivalled and the only possible explanation of it was that he did not know, and did not want to know, how to scheme.
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