What can have possessed Mr. Lloyd George to make such
an appointment we cannot tell. Probably he never gave it more than five minutes' thought, but acted, as so often before, on the principle of finding a good job for A.B. rather than of looking round to see what man could best carry out a specially difficult task. It was a case of " What shall I do with Samuel 7 " not " Who would do best in Palestine ? " But if he was looking for "something to suit Samuel," Sir Edward Sassoon and Sir Alfred Mond, not to mention the Lord Chief Justice, who, unless we are mistaken, still exercises a great deal of influence in Downing Street in regard to great appointments, could hardly be expected not to show their Hebrew sympathies. What more natural for them than to point out that Samuel for Zion would be an admirable choice
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