The papers of Saturday last published a letter from Mr.
Vivian Phillipps about the Lloyd Goorge-Asquith correspondence. Mr. Phillipps stated that he had just received a telegram from Mr. Asquith concerning the statement by the editor of the Atlantic Monthly that the Lloyd George-Asquith letters had been handed to the Atlantic Monthly by a conspicuous friend and supporter of Mr. Asquith, and that Mr. Asquith was willing that the dieclosure should be made. Mr. Asquith telegraphed : " As already stated, publication was male without any reference to me and without my knowledge oe approval." Mr_ Phillipps points out that the statement already made to which Mr. 'Asquith n refers appeared in the Daily News of February 3rd. It seas to the effect that in Mr. Aaquith's opinion the publication was " a gross violation of the sanctities of intimate and secret correspondence"
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