25 JULY 1914, Page 2

The orgy of futile jealousy and shrewish vituperation did not

last long. In the first place the Unionist evening papers of Wednesday pointed out that Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Winston Churchill, Lord Loreburn, and, indeed, almost every Liberal who had spoken or written on the subject, had talked about the dangers of civil war or civil strife. It was indeed preposterous to abuse the King because he had not followed the ostrich policy of a section of the Liberal Press, and insisted on putting his head into the sand and pretending that anybody who talked about the danger of civil war— invisible from that posture—was a traitor. If to name civil war was to break a specially sacred taboo, then nobody was more guilty than Ministers.