Mr. Lloyd George seems to be becoming a new Palmerston.
Palmerston, though he had liberal instincts and was theoretically tolerant of the points of view of other people, would often yield to the temptation to pick up a brick and throw it when a brick happened to be lying handy. Flying through the air as it does at this particular moment, Mr. Lloyd George's brick is unwelcome. When we write these lines _the French Chamber is about to hear a statement from M. Briand in which he will deal with affairs in Upper Silesia. We all understand M. Briand's difficulties. The dream of Frenchmen is to be saved for all eternity from Germany. They not unnaturally regard any increase of strength in Germany, or anything that might be interpreted as co-operation with Germany on the part of other Powers, as the beginnings of a new menace. There also figures in their dream a consoling picture of a new Poland as large and as strong as she possibly can be serving as a buffer and preventing the junction of Russia and Germany into a grand and aggressive alliance.
