Mr. Lloyd George at Carnarvon
Mr. Lloyd George's jubilee, after fifty years' representa- tion of Camarvon Boroughs in Parliament, would not have been complete without the warm tribute that was paid to him last Saturday in his own constituency. His affection for Wales, and Welsh affection for him, have never faltered at any period of his many-sided career. On this occasion he did not make a political speech. Among friends he pre- ferred to recall the old battles which they had fought together and which they had sent him to fight on behalf of the country ; and he reminded them how much had happened to change Britain and the world in that half-century—the win- ning for the masses of the power to turn Britain into a democracy, the adoption of a new attitude to the social con- ditions of the poor, and, in Europe, the re-drawing of its map. Amongst the young it is perhaps insufficiently realised that Mr. Lloyd George is not only the man who did so much to win the last war, but that what is unique about him is that he first manifested his dynamic power by forcing constructive measures of social reform upon the country, bringing down upon himself the wrath of vested interests, before he assumed his later role, that of leader of a united nation in the effort of war. Mr. Lloyd George, at seventy-seven, is still full of vigour. It is a pity more use is not being made of his experience and imagination.
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