EXTRA EDITION EXIT LLOYD GEORGE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 21 October 1922, Page 11

EXTRA EDITION EXIT LLOYD GEORGE.

THE FOItEJTON PRESS SAYS

WELL PLEASED.

REGRET IN GERMANY.-

BY CABLE—^RIiSS A&bOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

Received Oct. 21, 11.45 a.m. _ T . PARIS, Oct, 20, While all the newspapers express deep appreciation of Mr. Lloyd George's war services they are unanimously relieved at his.; departure. They anticipate that improved Anglo-French relations will follow, whatever Government is formed in Britain.

The Journal says: "We must go back to the days of Bismarck to find an international event comparable with Mr. Lloyd George's fall. Both succumbed to pride, intoxicated by success. The Figaro says that France has cruelly suffered from Mr. Lloyd George's changes and caprices, a-nd can hardly regret Ms fall. The Loeuvre remarks that it is opportune to point out that all the makers of the Versailles Treaty "Have now departed, and it should be fairly easy now to revise it. Poincare -will dp everything possible to facilitate a re-, conciliation which will be our best guarantee against -war, I The Matin declares that Mr. Lloyd j George had no principles, ethics, judgment, haired, or affections. He only Lad skill, and triumphed oratorically. ■ His seven years in office consisted or a never-erfffing legerdemain. In -wishing Mr, Lloyd George good-night, the Matin concludes: nMay it be a long one. May wfe never see"you again."

i BRUSSELS, Oct. 20. Newspaper people state that Mr. Lloyd George's disappearance ends", perhaps for ever, the dictatorship lie exercised, the effects of -which have T>een felt far beyond the frbntirs of the British Empire. s"~ ,'■- . BERLTNJOct, 20. The Tageblalt says fhat the British , crisis is disturbing, not only for Britain, but the whole world. For us it is deplorable, as it means new and more unfavourable decisions against • The Vossielie Zeitung attributes Mr.. Lloyd George's fall to Ms Near East policy. The LokaT Anzeiger, the Nationalist organ, interprets the fall as M., Bowies re's triumph. j The " '■ Allegemeine Zeitung, Herr Stinnes' paper, welcomes Mr. Lloyd George's exit. ," :":. -] The Vorwaerts, on the contrary, regrets the loss of one of the most eminent statesmen of modern times. —Aus.N.Z. Cable A&n,