In the pre-election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent.
Tory speakers, depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of...
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