Mr. Lloyd George, in condemning! the slowness'with which the work of Parliament is done, remarked recently that Magna Charta passed through all its stages in a very few days. By a coincidence, the anniversary of the signature of that instrument occurred on the following day (15th June). The deliberations between King and Barons cannot have lasted more than a week, because the safn-con-rluct to the Barons was granted only on Bth June. But they were in open rclii'lliun, and the country with them—a i-ir-cuinstunce which doubtless hud ;i time-sav-ing. influence..
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 43, 19 August 1930, Page 12
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