23 DECEMBER 1916, Page 14

THE WAR CABINET.

(To ins EDITOE OP THE " SPECTATOR.")

Sre,—Doubtless the Prime Minister's War Committee of five notables was not chosen with a view to selecting men from different classes of the community, but for reasons of State, so that the best service obtqinable should be rendered at this critical time. It is, however, worth while to note its composition : A professional man, Mr. Lloyd George; a. Peer, by descent, Lord Curzon; a working man, Mr. Henderson; a man of business, Mr. Boner Law; a State official, Lord Milner. The quintet is thus found to be a thoroughly representative body of all sorts and conditions of Britons.—I am,