The Prime Minister, it is announced, has written his memoirs
and, what is more, has sold them for an immense sum. The Press Association says that the price is £90,000, while the Sunday Times, Mr. Lloyd George's most faithful supporter, declares that it runs into six figures. In either case the mere author will devoutly wish that he had been a Primo Minister before he took up the writing trade. Mr. Lloyd George's object, we are told, is to " submit the true facts" about his policy and actions during and since the War " to the judgment of the public without further delay," inasmuch as he has been " sharply and even acrimoniously criticized." We had supposed that the Prime Minister, in innumerable speeches, had already submitted " the true facts," so far as they could be made known. If he proposes to reveal all the secrets of the War Cabinet his book will, indeed, cause a sensation. But we imagine that some of " the true facts " will be diluted or reserved for an incurious posterity.
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