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Then Lord Morley goes on to describe how all the

neutralists fell away. till only he and Mr. John Burns were left. When Lord Morley actually told Mr. Asquith that lie must resign Mr. Lloyd George seemed astonished, and exclaimed, " But if you go it will put us who don't go in a- great hole! " Lord Morley adds that he " made the obvious reply to this truly singular remark." Four letters of resignation were finally read to the Cabinet, 'but those-of Sir John Simon and Lord Beauchamp were afterwards' withdrawn. Of course, Mr. Asquith implored Lord Morley also to reconsider his decision, but Lord Morley stuck to his point that if he were a member of a War Cabinet he would be like the Peelites who could not last more than a few days in the Cabinet during the Crimean War. He imagined himself in constant conflict with Mr. Churchill. " If there is a war," he writes, " Winston will beat Lloyd George hollow." Mr. Lloyd George ha's since declared that Lord Morley's account is a complete distortion of the facts.