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Mr. Lloyd George went on to deprecate the discussion of

stra- tegical questions in the newspapers. " There is only one way when we go to councils of war ; you must leave it to those who arc there to decide ; and if you have no confidence in them, whether they are military or civil, there is only one way, and that is to change them." But newspaper controversy made war direction absolutely impos- sible. If the House and the country were not satisfied with the conduct of the war, and thought that there was any Government which could conduct it better, " it is their business, in God's name, to put that other Dovemment in." But so long as the House retained confidence in the Government, it ought to allow the Government a full and free hand'in the direction of the war.