WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION.

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Questions to Mr. Lloyd George. A flyer in bold suffragette purple, raising 11 questions to David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, scarce. WSPU activists considered his promises of support to be disingenuous: "Why do you expect us to accept your personal and unofficial advocacy of Woman Suffrage as a substitute for united and official action on the part of the Government?"Lloyd George was outwardly a supporter of women's suffrage, but his actions as Chancellor of the Exchequer did not match his promises. He did little to promote enfranchisement for all women and instead supported various Conciliation Bills between 1910 and 1912, which suggested giving the vote to a small number of female householders. All such motions failed to pass through Parliament and rumours spread that Lloyd George was, in fact, working against them. The WSPU fire-bombed Lloyd George's house in February 1913. We have traced no copies in institutions worldwide.Provenance: from the collection of the suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford.

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