27 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 2

Even if no thoroughgoing stunt develops, the treatment of Mr.

Churchill has already been grossly unfair. As our readers know, we hold no brief for Mr. Churchill, whose restless ambition we regard as a danger, but we cannot imagine how statesmen think that the work of government can be carried on if the practice of regarding any single Cabinet Minister as responsible for policy is to pass without a protest. Mr. Churchill's policy was, of course, the policy of Mr. Lloyd George, who made it his own immediately he adopted it. From that moment Mr. Lloyd George was responsible for it. Moreover, such as it was, the policy was not only that of Mr. Lloyd George, but of all the Allies.