But there are some reservations to be made in the
ease of most general principles, and we must say at once that Mr. Lloyd George is stretching the patience of many of his supporters to the breaking- point by his appointment of Mr. Churchill. In this matter they can judge as well as he can. The nation will take this appointment as the worst sign yet shown by the Government of unsteadiness and levity. Loyalty to friends, which Mr. Lloyd George has often displayed, is a most amiable quality, and a very good quality as a rule ; but loyalty to the supreme interestsof one's country is a much higher quality still. In this case no other consideration but the interests of the country should have counted for a moment. The nation has measured Mr. Churchill by his career, and it has come to the conclusion that it does not want him in any position of authority. It has decided that he is not a safe man, and that none of its interests is safe in his hands. It believes that he plays for his own advancement, and that he is not a man of high political character.
