`The Great Radical' Lloyd George Was Misled by
Hitler, Son Writes; Tells of 'Marconi Scandal' Which
Shook England and Rufus Isaacss' Great Legal Mind

Richard Lloyd George, the
Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor,
who most of his life had a
"bitter conflict of feeling" to-
wards his father, David Lloyd
George, relates many of his
feelings in "My Father, Lloyd
George," published by Crown
(419 Park Ave. S., N. Y. 16).
To give the account of his
father a proper setting, Richard
Lloyd George commences his
account by
stating: I'Lord
Boothby has
describe d
Lloyd George
as one of two
authentic po-
litical genius-
es in British
politics this
century, t h e
other being
Winston
Churchill .. ."
He then pro-
ceeds to quote
Lloyd George
his father's
views on why he himself con-
sidered himself a genius and
how he had begun to think so
of himself as a boy.
The son's story of his father
is most dramatic. It has many
aspects of interest, and among
them is Richard Lloyd George's
charge that his father had been
misled by Hitler. He states that
his father, "the. great Radical,"
sat silent when a Labor leader,
Aneurin Bevan, gave him a
"tongue-lashing" in the same
manner in which "the young
Lloyd George, in the days when
he was championing the weak
and impoverished, wielded the
axe against the petrified giants
of the Tory forest."
* * *
He refers here to Lloyd
George's later years when "his
judgment was becoming im-
paired," and he thereupon re-
lates the following:
"There was his extraordinary
flirtation. with Hitler. He visit-
ed the dictator at Berchtes-
gaden during a trip to Germany,
and came •back with deep ad-
iniration for the 'personality'
of the 'great leader.' Hitler had
stuffed his head with a lat of
lying 'nonsense about his' pa-
cific intentions; and father was
overwhelmed by the clockwork
precision with which industry
was run. He tried to convince
me that we had misjudged the
Fuehrer, who wanted nothing
except to make Germany pros-
perous and the world safe from
Bolshevism.
"I told him that I had it on
the highest authority that Hit-
ler was going to invade Poland
in 1939, France in 1940, Russia
in 1941 and us in 1946 (if he
could).
" 'Who told you that?' he
snorted.
" 'I read it in. Hitler's book,
`Mein Kampf.' You ought to buy
a copy. It only costs seven and
six. It would have saved you
the expense of a trip to Ger-
many.'
P ,
look
t me suspi-
. `If he sai
at, it was
for German
sumption.
ides,' he adde
rallying,
obody who reall meant it
.`-*ould ha
yo
"A
I
ted
t, 'that's
what h wa
yo
o think.' "
•r •wever, oyd George
Cha rlain over
Muni• — prot mg that the
cons snubs Russia would
ali
that ast military na-

in explanation of his father's
position, that "right through the
pre-war period and up to 1939,
Lloyd George remained the
greatest statesman in Parlia-
ment — always without office,"
and he states:
". . . Had Lloyd George's pre-
war policy of an alliance with
Russia and Czechoslovakia been'
effected, it is possible that even
Hitler, with all his aggressive-
ness, would have feared to
launch his armies against two
fronts simultaneously—the fear
of this was a permanent hin-
drance to the Nazi military
program which Mr. Chamber-
lain accommodatingly removed.
Lloyd George went about sing-
ing Russia's virtues as an ally
as though she had already
achieved the age of sputniks.
`Chamberlain is a self-mesmer-
ized rabbit who has persuaded
himself, because he disapproves
of her, that Russia does not
exist. His foreign policy oper-
ates in a vacuum!' he said to
me, despairingly."
Then Lloyd George helped
bring down Chamberlain's rule
and to assist his old friend
Churchill in taking over the
government which pursued the
war against Hitler.
* * *
Another notable event re-
corded by Richard Lloyd George
in the story about his father
relates to Sir Rufus Isaacs, who
later became Lord Reading, and
the Marconi scandal which
shook Great Britain in the early
years of this century. Richard
Lloyd George writes:
"Rufus Isaacs. A very dear
friend. A warm and charming
person, with a legal mind lik
a stiletto. A boy of 15, he
away to sea on a sailin
p.
One of his ports of c
was
Bombay. The next tim e set
foot in Bombay was a iceroy .
of India.
"In a court of law,
h such
competition as Marsh
Hall
himself, he never failed to
nate; and his grasp of detai
was so phenomenal that he
could proceed effortlessly- from
courtroom to courtroom, dealing
simultaneously with three or
fOur involved commercial cases
at once.
"He was concerned in the
wretched Marconi affair, and
was himself subjected -- the
greatest cross-examiner of his
day — to two whole days of
cross-examination.
"I asked him some time later
about it. 'How do you feel?' I
said with youthful impetuosity.
" 'Vastly interested. I wouldn't
have missed the experience for
the world. I had often wondered
what a witness feels at the re-
ceiving end. Now I know.'
'"And what did you feel?'
" 'Guilty,' he said, grinning.
"For all his precision-finished
mental processes, Rufus Isaacs
was a most romantic man tern-
peramentally. He became very
sentimental when he received
his appointment as Viceroy and
pictured very lyrically a new
Mode of life. His fanciful de-
scription of it might have come
straight out of Omar Khayyam.
I would not attempt to repro-
duce it from memory!"
* * *.
Referring to Lloyd George's
involvement in the Marconi ease,
the eminent statesman's son
points out that when all the ac-
cusations were dismissed as un-
proved, "the arch slander-mon-
ger, running a scurrilous anti-
Jewish rag, was indicted for
criminal libel." Later, Lord
The son proceeds to state, Northcliffe, having 'given an
order to all:his newspapers to dis-
count the slanders and rumors in
the case, told Winston Churchill:
"I am neither a rabid party man
seeking a book publisher nor
an anti-Semite.
Two fact-filled, illustrated brochures
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tween Lloyd George and Lord
Kitchener, Richard Lloyd George
tells about his father -having
turned to his secretary, Sir John
T. Davies, whom he addressed in
rapid Welsh. Whereupon Kitchen-
er "jumped up and drawing Ed-
win Montagu aside, spoke to him
rapidly in undertones. Kitchener
raised an agonized hand in pro-
test, 'Good God, the man speaks
Yiddish, too'!"
* * *

Richard Lloyd George writes a
remarkably interesting story
about his father. There is no
doubt about the genius of the
elder Lloyd George, and the
numerous incidents recorded by
the son are a great tribute to the
statesman who quoted the Bible
with ease, who was a noted ra-
conteur, who was courageous as
a campaigner whose pacificism in
the pre-Boer war nearly cost him
his career.
Yet, even with the "tran-
quility" and "objectivity" wi
which the son writes about
father's many love affairs
wife, after coming to his defe
during a law suit, later left
—presents an amazing specta
of an offSpring exposing to lig
the paternal errors.
The son is himself now 70, but
the experiences of the past, the
family "skeletons," must have
haunted him all these years, and'
his accounts of his father's
escapades are now a matter • of
public record.
His book has many qualities—
good writing, the recording of
many humorous stories about the
elder Lloyd
torical
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g to haye the son's views
about his f
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issuan
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fro
out his father Davi
story
His book, neverth
a re-
v n of a son's
brutally frank treatment of a
father whom he considers
among the world's greatest but
who, paternally, did not retain
affections that would have re-
sulted in an entirely different
volume. —P.S.

Exposition Press, 386 Fork Ave. S., N.Y.16

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