Mr. Lloyd George must knew all this perfectly well. He
braves public opinion, and we fear that he has thereby shaken the position
of the Government. In hie very act of accepting office Mr. Churchill gives a new token of his inconstancy. He told Mr. Asquith that be would not accept " a general responsibility for war policy "7 without an executive chars in its .guidance.amd control." 'The, circumstances are rather different- new, but- still it seerao to uerthat he goes back on his words in-new becomiog a Minister outside the l'shinet. Or are we to assume that at the Ministry of Munitions he will try to guide and control war policy ? That would be the worst thing-of all. Yet it is a thing we have genuinely to dread. The country has not forgotten, and can never forget, Mr. Churthill's mad escapades with the troops at Antwerp and the Fleet at the .Dardanelles.
