THE NEW FICTION
STATESMEN ABUSED 11. G. WELLS’ LATEST WORK THAT DAMNED MADONNA LILY (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 80. The second volume of 11. G. Wells’ “The World of William. Clossold ” has been published, li is full of astonishing commeul on living British statesmen. Thus Fail Balfour is described as “that damned Madonna Lily.” Elsewhere Lord Asquith, Earl Balfour and Sir E. Grey are described as “loeums, who are incapable of freshness or adaptation,” and whom “Lloyd George made look like historical monuments.” Air. Llovd George does not escape. He is referred to ns a “magnificent weed, clever as six foxes, but his brains don’t seem in ilio right place or the right way up or something.” Mr. MacDonald is "that queer, vain simulacrum of a statesman,” while of Lord Beaverbrook it is said that lie has "as much brains and imagination ns anyone, but- he is impish.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 5
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