When he turned to the subject of Lord Grey, Mr.
Lloyd George, whose dramatic sense in handling a situation never fails, spoke with much more restraint than his audience had expected. Of course, he could not refrain from several hard words. Lord Grey, he said, had tried to pull back a party which had been acting like brothers to wallow in the old faction. That was " rather mean." Lord Grey had praised other parties, but had not one word of praise for his own gallant little party. That was " rather shabby." Lord Grey's speech should have been delivered to a meeting of the whole party ; any other course was " unmanly " —and so on. Still, as we said, the speech was com- paratively restrained, and it ended up with an appeal to Lord Grey to come back and help his party. As, however, Mr. Lloyd George refused to discuss his fund with the Liberal Council, which he described as a self-appointed body, and as he said that the question of leadership concerned the party as a whole and had nothing to do with the Liberal Council, he has made reconciliation with Lord Grey even less likely than it was.
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