INTENSE INTEREST IN THE SPEECH.
LONDON, 6th May. Great interest was taken in Mr. Lloyd George's meeting at Conway. Applications for seats were four times as great as would, fill the hall. Newspapers at Home and abroad made special arrangements for reporting the speech.
[Among Mr. Lloyd George's critics is Mi-: Alfred G. Gardiner, editor of -the Daily News, "who, in a scathing open letter to Mr. Lloyd George, published about 21st April, said:—"Your friends have been silent over long, and have pretended not to have known many things, and. have refused to see your figure flitting about behind the screens. They agreed to talk of Lord Northcliffe. and Sir J. H. Dalziell, when in reality they meant Mr. Lloyd George. They have done this because they remembered past associations, and knew the strain upon an emotional mind like yours. But the time for concealment has passed. This week's crisis was the culmination of your activities, and the country has to choose between Mr. Asquith" and yourself. Doubtless in the heat of an overwrought atmosphere/ in your mind you honestly believe that you are yourself the man of destiny. Mr. Churchill and Lord Northcliffe share this impression with you. Your brilliant success, fascinating though wayward superficial personality and casual uninstructed habit cf mind encouraged the belief. But the Democracy was only a vehicle to you, never a faith. Now you seek in ten months Napoleon's power. As you once said to me, you never understood trade unions. Mr. Ascfiiith sought to carry Labour with him.- You are impatient of the Democracy, and have teen seized with a sort o! apocalyptic vision of yourself as the saviour of Europe. You were the chief cause of the fall of the Liberal Government and the establishment of the Coalition Government. Throughout you have been the friend of Lord Northcliffe, and in close intimacy with some of the Government's chief assailants. The country shall not choose between Mr. Asquith and yourself in ignorance."]
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 108, 8 May 1916, Page 7
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