23 JULY 1921, Page 1

The sequel to the savage attack on Mr. Lloyd George

and Lord Curzon made by the Times has caused no little amusement and done something towards putting Lord Northcliffe in the right in this new Iliad of wounded feelings and angry words. Lord Curzon was unwise enough to counter the abuse heaped on his head by decreeing that the representatives not only of the Tines but of the whole Northcliffe Press should be deprived of the privileges accorded to the Press at the Foreign Office. The injury done to the Timm, the Daily Mail, the Evening News, and the Weekly Dispatch, is, of course, nil. The only result has been the arousing of that sympathy which in England is always accorded to anyone put under the Ban of Government.