As for the Western Front, on the eve'of " a
very great attack by the German armies," Mr. Lloyd George said that he felt happier than he had done since the war began, because the Allies bad secured unity of direction and action. " I tried repeatedly to achieve unity, and very nearly upset the Government several times in doing so." Surely it was Mr. Lloyd George's method, and not his aim, that endangered the Government : we may hazard the suggestion without being guilty of " barren, poisonous, and petty " criticism, against which the Prime Minister protested. He anticipated a race between Hindenburg and President Wilson within the next few weeks ; and he relied, as we all do, upon General Foch's commanding genius. In a later speech Mr. Lloyd George referred to the refusal of the bulk of young Irishmen to serve in the Army, and to the conspiracy of some Irishmen " of great away and influence " with the military autocracy of Germany. He declared that the Irish Nationalist leaders were innocent of complicity, and stated that much of the evidence of the plot could not be published without, endangering the public interest.
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