On Friday, September 7th, Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the
meeting of the Welsh National Liberal Council-at -Llandrintlod Wells, derided the policy of the Government. "Look at these glorious days of 'tranquillity '—France kneeling on the prostrate form of Germany and ham- mering the life out of her ; Italy strangling Greece and Great Britain not allowed to interfere." Never since the days of Fashoda, exclaimed Mr. Lloyd George, had the temper between France and Great Britain been worse. "Hatred, anger and something I cannot stand —contempt for Great Britain—are being hissed out." "As a Britisher," he did not like what had happened at the League of Nations. "It is the Empire snubbed out of Europe." When Mr. Lloyd George says that the League of Nations "cannot stand rebuff after rebuff," we cannot help remembering that the period of greatest obscurity for the -League was when Mr. Lloyd George was managing Europe by means of the Supreme Council, and only occasionally throwing as a sop to the League little tasks which were beyond the Supreme Council's capacity or comprehension.
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