Volume 18, Number 2 · February 10, 1972
The Goat
By Noel Annan
Lloyd George: A Diary
by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor
Harper & Row, 328 pp., $10.00
In his Preface to these diaries, A. J. P. Taylor remarks that Lloyd George was called the Welsh Wizard by his admirers and the Goat by those who mistrusted him. It may be so. Taylor is the doyen of modern British history and no one is better able to distinguish fact from legend. But I was brought up to believe that just as Asquith's enemies called him Squiff because he was so often squiffy, or tipsy, in the evening, so Lloyd George's enemies called him the Goat in their disgust with (or envy of) his inexhaustible sexual appetite.
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