LimpLloyd George's relationship with Lord Curzon was often frought with disaffection. "If you treated me half as badly as you treat foreign secretary Curzon," a colleague declared one day, "I'd resign tomorrow morning."
"Oh, he does resign," Lloyd George replied. "But there are two messengers at the Foreign Office. One has a limp; he comes with the resignation. The other was a champion runner; he always catches up."
[Trivia: At the Versailles Conference in 1919, Lloyd George advised Italy that it could make up its commercial losses by increasing the production of its banana crop. (Italy, of course, had no such crop.)]
Lloyd George, David, First Earl (1863-1945) British chancellor of the exchequer (1908-15), World War I munitions minister, prime minister (1916-22) [noted for his Welsh nationalism, for his introduction of the so-called People's Budget (which proposed higher death duties and a supertax, 1909), and for his forced resignation (over dissatisfaction with his handling of the Irish question and Turkish nationalism)]
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