Mr. Lloyd George, "addressing the Eisteddfod at Birkenhead on Thursday
week, spoke of the decisive part that little nations are still playing in the world's history. "Great nations are necessary for protection, for security, for strength ; the smaller nations for concentrated and intensive effort," like the smallholder as eon- treated with the large farmer. The Prime Minister reminded his Welsh audience of the past work of little nations. " Why, the greatest literature of England was produced when its population was not greater than that of Serbia, and when it was considerably less than that of Belgium. Some of the most enduring masterpieces of the world came from a State whose area and population were less than those of an average Eeglieh county." The reference to the Athens of Pericles was just, so far as it went But the subse- quent fate of the Athenian Empire, erected on too narrow a basis, points a different moral which the British Empire is taking to heart-
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