MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14783, 13 October 1921, Page 6

MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

ANOTHER WELSHMAN’S VIEWS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 3.. ; “Mr Lloyd George sleeps like a -cat. He picks out the softest available place when he is tired, curls himself into a ball, and goes off into peaceful slumber, waking after 'perhaps an hour with his wonderful brain strong, clear and ready, again to attack the great problems that unceasingly confront him.” . After saying this Mr Hughes sigh'ed and confessed that he envied the other great little “Welshman,” who, contrary to popular belief, was born in Manchester. About this cat-like quality he tells this story. “One day Mrs Hughes was at No. 10 Downing Street when Mrs Lloyd George showed her a beautiful new silk cover that she had just placed on a capacious settee. 'She was careful not to invite any of her guests to occupy this comfortable lounge—it was too costly and artistic to be sat, upon; ‘ Jut then theguests moved to another part of the house, and a little later Mrs Lloyd George 'invited Mrs Hughes to see what had happened in the first room. There coiled up on the settee was the Prime Minister fast asleep, with his dirty boots crumpling up the precious cover. It was more than anyone’s soul was worth to disturb him.” Mr Hughes does not think the succession of reverses at by-elections 'any test of the British Government’s Strength. “The Northcliffe. press is 'able to swing these by-elections,” he 'said, “by a concentration of all its 'guns; but that is quite a different matter to stampeding the whole -Country at a general election. In any case Mr Lloyd George can af'fiord a big reduction in his majority. In fact, he would be all the better for it. “An overwhelming majority is not good for a Ministry,, as I know from experience. Some people imagine I will not be able to carry on, because my majority is small, but that is an erroneous idea. When the numbers are nearly even the party sticks' together; but if there are votes to ’spare you see men with big whiskers whispering together, until they form a cave. Then look out for trouble.”