Lloyd George “Greatest Don Juan In British Politics”

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29333, 12 October 1960, Page 11

Lloyd George “Greatest Don Juan In British Politics”

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10. Book reviewers have expressed distaste and surprise at the manl ner in which the present Earl . Lloyd George, in a biography ! just published,, has described the I “amorous indiscretions” of his : famous father, David Lloyd . George, Britain’s Prime Minister . in World War I. . “My father A says Earl Lloyd • George, “was . probably the I greatest natural Don Juan in the . history of British politics, and J there seems to be living evidence to prove this. “His entire life, including 53 : years of marriage with my i mother, was involved with a • series of affairs with women, some ■ innocent, some romantic, some ■ deeply obsessive, some cynical ■ and worldly, and most of them I fruitful.” One reviewer says that never , has a great man’s life been laid ■ bare like this—“even by a sensa-tion-seeking butler”—and adds ! that the author has “achieved an i analysis of the father and son ) relationship unique outside the i psychiatrist’s consulting room.” i Another says that if he were a son, he would be ashamed of

. writing about his father as Earl I Lloyd George has done. The “Daily Mirror” says: “Lloyd George couldn’t resist anything • in skirts—and apparently nothing ■ in skirts could resist him. “Earl Lloyd George tells the story of his dad and the damsels ' —how Lloyd George had to shave ' his moustache to evade an angry ' husband, how outside his marriage he fathered at least one child and almost wrecked his ■ political career, and how, in his ' sixties, he ran a kind of harem at I his country home.” ' Eels’ Preference For Chicken l (New Zealand Press Association}.. 1 AUCKLAND, October 11. Eels seem to prefer chicken to’ ' mutton. • After a week in Lake Pupuke, • Takapuna, an Auckland Acclimas tisation Society eel trap, baited > with a sheep’s head, caught six i small eels. : The same trap caught 120 large eels in two days when baited ; with chicken heads and set in a f stream near Cambridge last week.