LLOYD GEORGE’S article in the Sunday Dispatch praising Hitler as the only statesman in Europe keeping his head indicates quite clearly that the old British politician is losing his own head. Lloyd George has on several occasions displayed unmistakable sympathy for the Jewish people and for Jewish aspirations in Palestine. He also denounced the Nazi atrocities during the early stages of Hitler’s regime. But Lloyd George has always been more the politician than the statesman. It is but necessary to recall his demonstrative insistence on humiliating the German people in the matter of the war guilt and on making them pay the allies to the last pfennig, when such demands were extremely popular and when his political fate hung in the balance. Now Lloyd George is impressed with Hitler’s “Courageous statesmanship”. It was Lloyd George, with the aid of Clemenceau, who feared Woodrow Wilson’s idealism as the great peacemaker, the embodiment of the world’s hope at the close of the war, and who brought about the tragic failure of Woodrow Wilson’s plans for durable and equitable peace.
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