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Excerpt from Better Times: SpeechesPerhaps a word may be said with advantage as to the manner of the preparation of these Speeches. Mr. Lloyd George's method does not differ very materially from that which he pursued in the earliest days of his Parliamentary career. It was then his habit to make very full notes of the speech he was to deliver in the House or on the platform, but he did not use these notes when it came to the actual delivery of the speech they were then discarded, and a few lines scribbled on some scraps of paper, perhaps on the back of an envelope, were enough to serve him. Nowadays, when he has planned fully the general scheme and the main heads of an important speech, he dictates it to a typist. Then he reads through the type-written copy, and alters or amplifies it Finally he condenses it into a short note, consisting only of the barest head-lines, for use on the platform or in the House of Commons, as the case may be, and in the end, it has been observed, he delivers the speech in almost exactly the form of his first complete draft. It is necessary to add this qualification, that his readiness to improvise upon any interruption, friendly or hostile, establishes an intimacy in the relations between his audience and himself which gives his speech, even when it has been elaborately prepared, the freshness of a lively and resourceful talker's conversation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.