CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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Typed letter initialled, to David Lloyd George, on Lords reform and international debt. Churchill writes to the former Prime Minister, "My dear LG, I mentioned to Salisbury that you were pleased to receive his scheme about the House of Lords, and that you were going to write to him". He adds a handwritten postscript, "The debt question is now reaching the limit of disaster for us. We are actually encouraging the French to pay U.S. & not to pay Gt Britain!".Appended is the letter from Salisbury to Churchill, 7 December 1932, saying he looks forward to Lloyd George's letter with great interest. The 4th Marquess of Salisbury was chair of a joint committee on House of Lords reform; Churchill and Lloyd George had led the drive to reform the Lords in 1909-11.The "debt question" refers to France reducing its payments to Britain, which hindered Britain's ability to meet its own debts to the United States, while France still sought to pay its obligations to the Americans. Churchill argued that Britain should insist France pay Britain and the United States proportionally. The issue was urgent, as the next payment to the United States fell due on 15 December; Britain paid its instalment, while France defaulted. Both Lloyd George and Churchill spoke scathingly against Britain's policy in a debate in Parliament on 14 December.Churchill's political alliance with Lloyd George was highly consequential. Together they led the Liberal welfare reforms of the 1900s. After Lloyd George became Prim

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