26 DECEMBER 1925, Page 3

Mr. Lloyd George on Thursday, December 17th, spoke in London

on his schemes for the political treatment of urban land. He was vague, rhetorical, abusive and sentimental by turns. We see his difficulty in putting forward just now a more definite policy for the Liberal Party, but it is lamentable if a man who has performed such immense services to his country and the world has learnt nothing by his experience, and returns to the same level of demagogy on which he stood in the Limehouse days of 1909. It is equally deplorable if important questions of the land are to be treated with no more enlightenment than attended his old policy of taxing land-values, and as yet we see no promise of a real advance in policy. There remain a few of his old Liberal supporters who by continuous voting in the lobbies fixed in their minds the idea that Mr. Lloyd George's schemes must be sound. He threw thein over and now they may rejoice at his return to his position of fifteen years ago. We cannot believe that the country will rally to him or that he has found the right method of revitalising the Liberal Party so that it may regain the place that we should like to see it hold.