Pinter leads row over Lloyd George statue
David Lloyd George is regarded as one of the great prime ministers of the 20th century by many, but yesterday the unveiling of a new statue of the Liberal politician led to a row over his colonial war record.
The sculpture in Parliament Square, unveiled by the Prince of Wales, has outraged anti-war campaigners, including Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who described it as "utterly disgraceful".
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, Pinter, the journalist John Pilger and Denis Halliday, the former United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq, cited an infamous phrase that Lloyd George allegedly used in 1934, in which he apparently reserved the right of Britain "to bomb n*****s".
The meaning of the phrase is disputed because, although it was attributed to Lloyd George, it was recorded in the diary of his second wife and former mistress, Frances Stevenson.
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The sculpture in Parliament Square, unveiled by the Prince of Wales, has outraged anti-war campaigners, including Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who described it as "utterly disgraceful".
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, Pinter, the journalist John Pilger and Denis Halliday, the former United Nations humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq, cited an infamous phrase that Lloyd George allegedly used in 1934, in which he apparently reserved the right of Britain "to bomb n*****s".
The meaning of the phrase is disputed because, although it was attributed to Lloyd George, it was recorded in the diary of his second wife and former mistress, Frances Stevenson.