LLOYD GEORGE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 7

LLOYD GEORGE

"THE GREATEST SON OF WALES"

STATUE UNVEILED IN CARNARVON. -

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(AUSTRALIAN • NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 6th August. The Prime Minister of Australia {Mr. W. M. Hughes), unveiled a statue of Mr. Lloyd George in Castle-square, Carnarvon, in the presence of an enormous gathering of spectators. He said that in the statue of the greatest son of Wales they saw enshrined, the spirit and genius of her race, her vicissitudes, her sacrifices, and her triumphs. Mr. Lloyd George stood as during the war, comporting himself as ijhe leader of a great nation in the most critical year* of its history. Many critics would deny his claims to greatness, but they only said what their prototypes said of Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, and" Lincoln. It was significant that ho (Mr. Hughes) had travelled 12,000 mllea to sit in a Council of Empire under the presidency of a great Welshman. Wales was holding her own in these days. The natives of tho ionce-despised principality .wore proving capable of playing a prominent part in world affairs, not only'in tho British Empire, but in the great Republit ot Americh M* Lloyd George was a great historic' figure! In an hour of desperate need Britain called fc-T » man and he.came and led the Empire to safety. , ,

Mrs., Lloyd George, when unveiling a stained glass window in the Llansantffrard village church in memory of Mr. Hughes's mother, declared: "Wo are proud of Mr. Hughes, not only as a Welshman, but as one of the greatest sons of Empire."l.