LLOYD GEORGE’S BOOK

Evening Star, Issue 18058, 28 August 1922, Page 4

LLOYD GEORGE’S BOOK

PROFITS TO CHARITY. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, August 26. (Received August 28, at 8.5 a.m.) It is announced that the whole of tho profits of Mr Lloyd George’s book will bo devoted to charities connected with tho relief of suffering caused by tho war.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PRIME MINISTER’S POSITION EXPLAINED. LONDON, August 26. (Received August 28, at 9.30 a.m.) The ‘ Sunday Times,’ which is owned by the firm that "purchased the English serial hook rights of Mr Lloyd George’s book, slates that his decision to give the whole lot" the profits to charities is entirely free from any ad captandum intent or to meet the acrimonious criticism which the announcement of the publication evoked in certain quarters. The simple fact is that, in the course of writing the book, Mr Lloyd George has been so distressed by tho poignancy of the story that he has to tell jof the terrible sacrifice of the nation’s lifeblood' involved in the struggle that the idea of any personal gain in the matter became impossible. He felt that he would despise himself if he allowed' himself to think of the book in such terms, and ho determined that the story of the nation’s . sacrifice should he told only for the nation’s j gain.—A. and N.Z. Gable.