Mr. Lloyd George made a very able and impressive speech
at Gray's Inn on Friday week. After a brief reference to Lord Lans- downe's letter, which had, it seemed, been misconstrued as a message of despair, the Prime Minister proceeded to denounce " the man who thinks that there is a half-way house between victory and defeat." There was no half-way house. Without victory the setting up of a League of Nations would be a farce. We should be trusting again to " a scrap of paper," before we had punished the violators of Belgian neutrality. " You cannot wage war with words. You cannot secure peace with words." We must go on fighting till victory ; " we ought never to have started unless we meant, at all hazards, to complete our teak." If we did not bring to book the criminal State which had set sinews at defiance, there would be no lasting peace for us. " Victory is an essential condition for the security of a free world."
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