A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
THE virtually simultaneous appearance of the second volume of Lord Snowden and the fourth volume of Mr. Lloyd George within three days of each other has the effect of throwing a double flood of light —or rather two floods, directed from different angles —on certain persons who figure prominently in both volumes. The Prime Minister is a target for both writers, and his enemies could construct a pretty thorny chaplet by stringing together a dozen quotations or so from each volume. The contrast between Mr. Lloyd George's picture of the Left Wing pacifist who failed to get a passage to Russia in 1917 because no member of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union would sail on a ship that carried him, and Lord Snowden's attribution to the new National Government Prime Minister of the declaration that " Tomorrow every duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me," marks a certain transit in space as well as time. Both Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Snowden are today among the Prime Minister's political opponents, and allowance must be made for the amenities of political controversy.
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