The papers of Monday published in advance the preface to
the collection of Mr. Lloyd George's war speeches. It is a remarkable challenge to the nation, and we cannot help regarding its appearance, for reasons which we have given elsewhere, as one of the most important events which have happened at home during the war. Mr. Lloyd George says that if the Allies had appreciated at the beginning, not only the resources of their enemy, but also their own enormous resources, the Germane would already be "scorched back" across their frontiers. As it was, the Germans still had an overwhelming superiority in all the equipment and material of war. "Nothing but our best and utmost can pull us through . . . Are we now straining every nerve to make up for lost time ? Are we getting all the men we shall •want to put into the fighting line next year to enable us even to bold our own P . . , Who is to take the Russian place in the fight whilst those armies are re-equipping P"
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