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If they determined to do this they would have quite

a good case, and one can imagine how convincing it would seem when garnished with Mr, Lloyd George's skill in Presentation. He

would point out that although the Government had been prepared to take sundry precautions, some of them undoubtedly costing the nation much money, in order to buy security, they now recognized that, owing to circumstances which could not have been foreseen, the greatest issue of all was that of saving the country by averting bankruptcy. That issue, he would say, eclipsed all others, and all others must be subservient to it. Surely no case could be better than that.

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