The papers of last Saturday published two letters which the
late Sir Henry Wilson had written to Mr. Lloyd George, one in 1919 and the other in 1922. They are warm-hearted letters, telling Mr. Lloyd George of the writer's admiration for the part he played in the War, and, indeed, saying that no one man had. done so much to _ win the War. Mr. Lloyd George produced these letters, which he had fortunately preserved, as an answer to the ridicule and abuse of him which appears in Sir .Henry Wilson's published diaries. How can Sir Henry Wilson, the casual reader asks, have possibly written both the abuse and this extravagant praise ? The answer is really simple. The ridicule and abuse referred, not to Mr. Lloyd George's Prime Ministership during the War, but to his peace policy, and to his policy after the War in regard to Ireland.
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