TO ATTEMPT to summarise the life and achievements of David Lloyd George within the space of a note is as impossible as it seems unnecessary. He may be a Welshman, Carnarvon may have returned him to Parliament for forty-four years, but he is a national figure, his name and features known to everyone. '
Some know him banally as the ' Wizard of Wales ', some may have forgotten that he has been described as a greater War Minister than Pitt ; all can tell of his eloquence, but the thing apt to be overlooked in this man who, in power of place, was second to none in the world in 1918, is the fact that twenty years ago he was the driving force behind every social reform of our time.
Tonight he is to look into the future ; unique in that he, more than any man, carved and moulded the present, for better or worse, both out of peace and war.