Author of 'God's Candidate: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul I' (Albino Luciani} & upcoming 'David Lloyd George: Welsh Radical, World Statesman.'💙☮️paulspackman.com United KingdomJoined March 2025
1939: “He knows how Chamberlain feels. Picking his way through the excavations and bomb shelters. Mr Lloyd George, who was Premier during the World War, arriving at the House of Commons for Emergency meeting to hear Government stand on the current crisis” (Int. News Co.)
Member of Parliament - 55 years:
“Unlike other leading Statesmen - Gladstone, Balfour, Asquith, Churchill, Bonar Law - he never had to undergo the bitterness of losing his seat” (MacMillan Press, 1975)
Winifred Coombe Tennant at the League of Nations Assembly (A SHORT THREAD)
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In August 1922, Coombe Tennant (a Neath resident and close friend of David Lloyd George), was selected to be a substitute delegate at the Third Assembly of the League of Nations.
Sep. 1938. In the midst of the Munich agreement - Lloyd George en route to Westminster: “Despite all the warlike preparations, the distinguished traveller was, as always, recognised, but on that morning recognitions were more numerous and the salutes more emphatic” (A. Parry)
“The great strategist, Mr Lloyd George, seized on the vulnerable point in the enemy’s defences and staked everything on the throw”!
A. G. Gardiner of The Daily News & Reader describing how LG “stood like a rock” against his opponents!
“I’ve lived more than 150 lives, prostitute, saint, romantic, every kind of woman, and that is marvellous to have this opportunity to change yourself,”
Claudia Cardinale RIP
1938-2025
Elzbieta Zawacka (Agent Zo) holds a singular place in history as the only female emissary of the Polish Home Army to reach London during the chaos of the Second World War.
She became a vital member of the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the “Silent Unseen,” undergoing…
🚨 With a heart swollen with sadness, I announce the passing of Italian 🇮🇹 actress Claudia Cardinale, who passed away at 87
An icon, a muse, beautiful, sweet and talented — she embodied for decades the eternal feminine ✨
RIP
#OTD 1893: Birth in Norwich of Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet. He served as private secretary to David Lloyd George, 1921-23, and attended the negotiations which led to the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.
50 years ago, Harold Macmillan wrote of Lloyd George. “No doubt today he is almost forgotten by the general public, so short is their memory of politicians! Yet, by the end of the first quarter of the century, he was the outstanding public character in Britain and indeed Europe”
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