17 NOVEMBER 1923, Page 2

On Friday, the 9th, Mr. Lloyd George came home, evidently

vigorous and refreshed after his American tour. Even before he had landed he had called' Mr. Baldwin's proposals " unutterable folly." It was, he "an insult to the intelligence of the nation to feed starving industries with the mildewed straw of the last centur:: out of which every grain of statesmanship had been beat( n." Thus, Mr. Lloyd George has nailed up his Free Trade flag and in so doing has, it seems, in a very large measure effected Liberal reunion.