AN ANGRY DAME

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 8

AN ANGRY DAME

RESENTS NEWSPAPER ATTACK.

Dame Margaret Lloyd George, wife of the ex-Prime Minister, has addressed the following letter to the editor of the London ‘‘Daily Herald”:

Sir, —In the “Daily Herald” you make an offensive attack on me, or, rather through me, on Lord Oxford and my husband, in connection with the report, that 1 had lost a necklace supposed to be valued at £lOOO. I have already contradicted the report as to the value, and publicity has been given to that contradiction in every paper except yours. It suits you rather to repent the misstatement.

If you are curious as to the real value of my lost necklace, I can enlighten you. It, was not worth oneforieth, and probably not. one-fiftieth, of the gift made to your loader when he was Prime Minister by one of his capitalist friends.

I have no recollection that, nt the time of that, princely gift, or slice, you have rebuked Mr Ramsay MacDonald, as you do Lord Oxford and my husband, on the proof that transaction gave of the betrayal of his class and the abandonment of the simplet tastes of his youth. If that example of your partiality as a censor does not suffice, 1 can quote a few more from your ow.l political household which are much better illustrations of your theme than my over valued necklace. Most of my pearls were given me from time to time by my husband out of his earnings as a journalist since he left office. Is it a crime for him to earn high fees for writing? If he is to be arraigned for this offence, many of the most prominent Socialist leaders—ex-Ministers and others—ought to be in the dock with him.

In fine, had you not better cleanse your iwn stable first before you undertake to sweep the dust on the Liberal floor?

P.S. —I shall be obliged to you for the courtesy of the same prominence in your paper for this correction as you have accorded to the statement. 10 Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, S.W. THE REPLY.

Following the receipt of Dame Margaret Lloyd George’s letter (says the London ‘‘Daily Mail”) the ‘‘Daily Herald” made the following eomniiin!cation to the Central News: — The correction from £lOOO to £6OO as the value of the necklace appeared in our issue. We apologise to Mrs Lloyd George for having forgotten our original revision of the estimate. It does not, however, in any way, affect our argument.