NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE note with very great satisfaction the suggestion made by the Daily Express of Wednesday that an adequate sum of money should be voted to the Prime Minister. We have strongly criticized a great many of the Prime Minister's actions before the war, during the war, and since the Peace. We think, moreover, that it was the British sailor and the British soldier and their officers who won the war, and not any politician, great or small. Further, we think that the present Prime Minister's inability to see that the Germans must be beaten on the Western Front—i.e., where the German armies were—and not at .Aleppo or some other distant part where they were not, caused us to run the very gravest risks of losing the war. Since, however, the majority of his countrymen thought otherwise, and placed their destinies unreservedly in Mr. Lloyd George's hands, it most certainly is the duty of the British people to reward, and reward generously, his ceaseless activity and his willingness to spend himself unreservedly in the nation's cause. He did his best, and it was no fault in him to follow his own instincts and not somebody else's. Therefore those who put him in power and kept him in power—i.e., the country as a whole—owe him a handsome acknowledgment, and we shall most gladly join in any public demand for it. He cannot ask for it himself, or even let his friends ask for it. It must be unanimously accorded to him, and even if he tells us that he does not desire it.
