BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Otago Witness, Issue 3517, 9 August 1921, Page 19

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

STATUE UNVEILED AT CARNARVON. LONDON, August 6. Mr Hughes, unveiling a statue of Mr Lloyd George in Castle Square, Carnarvon, in the presence of an enormous gathering of spectators, 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. Air Lloyd George stood, as during the war, comforting himself as the leader of a great nation in the most critical years of her history. Many critics would deny bis claims to greatness, but they only said what their prototypes said of Pitt, Gladstone. Disraeli, and Lincoln. It was significant that he had travelled 12,000 miles to sit in the Council of the Empire under the presidency of a great Welshman. Wales was holding ! her own in these days, and the natives j of a once despised principality were proving capable of playing a prominent part in world affairs, not only in tbe British Empire, but in the great Republic of America. Mr Lloyd George was the great historical figure of the hour, despite The Times. Britain called for the man, and lie came, and led us to safety. EXCHANGE OF COURTESIES. Mrs Lloyd George, unveiling a stained* glass window in I.lansantffrard village efim'ch in memory of Mr Hughes's mother, declared that we should be proud of Mr Hughes, not only as a Welshman, but as one of the greatest sons of the Kmprie. Air Hughes, unveiling a war memorial window, said the ceremony was emblematic of the great- Empire to which we belonged. It was the same spirit throughout the Empire that sent.- men across the I ocean to France and Palestine. Bishop Erodsham dedicated both window?.