Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that the motto of the American delegation is Faith, Hope and Parity?" As the top-hatted, frock-coated delegation was met by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes in a grey fedora and lounge suit, the inevitable cockney voice that seems to exist in every English crowd boomed, "Ow! Pipe th' disarmin' blokes...
...Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is the calm, persuasive statesman with weak eyes who served for eleven consecutive years as Foreign Secretary, made the entente with France and Russia, reluctantly but vigorously led Great Britain into the World War. Last week, though his years are now three-score and seven, and though his eyes are very dim indeed, Lord Grey made a brief, dignified public statement which had the effect of a dynamite depth bomb on his party-Liberal...
...General Election of last spring all Liberals stood together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election...
Having thus split the Liberal Party wide open once more, Lord Grey rather pathetically peered into the future with his weak eyes. "I foresee a Liberal revival," he prophesied. "Some Liberals are thinking of turning to the Labor party. I invite them not to be in a hurry to take definite, final decision. The Labor party is not undivided, and in the Conservative party there are rumblings which may precede an earthquake. We may be uncomfortable in the Liberal party, but we may in a short time find the situation in another party more uncomfortable still...
While last week's explosives were detonating below him, David Lloyd George was happily celebrating his 67th birthday. But most politically wise Britons surmised that the cocky little Welshman would think up plenty of drastic things to say about Viscount Grey's disturbance. Few if any could have foreseen the nature of his remarks. Summoning a meeting of the National Liberal Club, he extended toward his assailant a rhetorical glad hand which smacked much more of a rebuke than any amount of invective. Said he: "I appeal to Lord Grey not to discourage the party when...