The Primo Minister made a highly optimistic speech at the
Lord Mayor's banquet on Tuesday. The speech was not the medium, as has often happened on these occasions, of some important communication to the nation. It was rather an exhortation to good-will and an assertion that conditions were improving. Mr. Lloyd George's exhortation woe excellent in every way, and they must be dull of soul indeed who could regard his words as meaningless in is week when the Armistice Day has again been observed in a solemn silence, and when the
e The Editor cannot accept responsibility for any articles or letters representative of the nameless dead has been buried in West. submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes min.ster Abbey. Mr. Lloyd George said that Germany evidently are sent he will do his best to return contributions in ease of intended to carry out the terms of the Treaty. She was rapidly rejection, disarming herself. The only difficulty was the rifles which were in the hands of the populace and not of the Government. Ho again declared trade with Russia to be necessary, and spoke of Bolshevism as " a passing phase" which was bound to come to an end because of its own insanity. He asked for "a square deal" with Labour in order that the workers might have con- fidence in Constitutional Government, and he paid a tribute to the miners' representatives in the recent negotiations. But not a word about public economy !
