Viscount Samuel is pictured with Lloyd George’s Ambulance Wagon, a reminder of the 1912 National Health Insurance Act. – Vintage Photograph

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Viscount Samuel, a British Liberal statesman and former Balliol undergraduate, is captured in this press photograph with Lloyd George’s Ambulance Wagon. The Ambulance Wagon is a reminder of the 1912 National Health Insurance Act, a piece of Liberal legislation that was largely shaped by Viscount Samuel’s philosophy. Private papers reveal that Viscount Samuel had a detailed memorandum on Palestine in 1915, which influenced the course of events in the Middle East. Viscount Samuel has often been ahead of his political associates, even during his undergraduate days, when he recognized the need for a State system of labour registration to tackle the problem of unemployment.Viscount Samuel, a British Liberal statesman and former Balliol undergraduate, is captured in this press photograph with Lloyd George’s Ambulance Wagon. The Ambulance Wagon is a reminder of the 1912 National Health Insurance Act, a piece of Liberal legislation that was largely shaped by Viscount Samuel’s philosophy. Private papers reveal that Viscount Samuel had a detailed memorandum on Palestine in 1915, which influenced the course of events in the Middle East. Viscount Samuel has often been ahead of his political associates, even during his undergraduate days, when he recognized the need for a State system of labour registration to tackle the problem of unemployment.

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THURSDAY BOOK PAGE The makings of a Liberal leader DIBON By ARNOLD HADWIN Viscount say 0.10 Viscount Samuel. By John Bowle (Gollancz, 30s.). Lloyd George’s Ambulance Wagon. The Memoirs of W. J. Braithwaite. Edited by Sir Henry Bunbury (Methuen, 30s.). IT was in his lodgings It is not only what kind of Inn Hall of genes he is born with, kind civilisation into, that matters that a good deal of nonsense is talked about this kind of quack but what he is born I believe psychology and that we should return to commonsense.” in New Street, Oxford, that Her- bert Samuel, then an undergraduate at Balliol, in 1893, was first ap- proached to become a parliamentary candidate. In South Oxfordshire he got his first taste of the rough and tumble of electioneering.on Here in Oxfordshire, in fact, this great Liberal states- man learnt the mechanics of politics: how to nurse a con- stituency and how to handle the Party machine. But he never won the seat. It captures the man. Com- monsense, marshalled behind a desire to improve civilisa- tion, has threaded through Lord Samuel’s public and private life. T More important than the mechanics of politics, however, was the philosophy of politics. This he learnt at Balliol under the guidance of Jowett and the ever-present influence of T. H. Green. M Drawing on private papers, Mr. Bowle has been able to publish for the first time Lord Samuel’s worevised Cabinet memorandum on Palestine in 1915, a document which cer- tainly influenced the course of events in the Middle East. “1 Viscount Samuel NEWSPAPERS Lord Samuel has often been ahead of his political associ- ates. Even during his under- graduate days he could see the need for “a State system of ITED. labour registration to tackle the problem of unemployment. Lloyd George’s labour exchan- ges came years later. oblemos to PHOTOGRAPH. At Balliol he was steeped in Liberalism and it has sustained great piece of Liberal legisla- PAPER HOUSE, him throughout his distin- tion: Lloyd George’s Ambu- seat with his philosophy-at lance was the birth detailed FLEET STREET, Wagon is a head of the Liberal Party. the National Health Insurance Act of 1912.607. LONDON.E.C.4..