On Thursday night Mr. Kebty-Fletcher, at a public meet- ing
at Ilford, repeated the question which be put to Mr. Lloyd
George in the House of Commons on April 1st, a question which Mr. Lloyd George dared him to repeat in public where he would not be protected, i.e., by the privilege of Parliament. The question was : "Should not the right bon. gentleman's salary be sufficient to prevent him (Mr. Lloyd George) wrongly and improperly gambling F" Mr. Lloyd George will, of course, now take proceedings for libel against Mr. Kebty- Fletcher. We congratulate both Mr. Kebty-Fletcher and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on their action, and on having made a precedent which will prevent the scandalous practice of members of Parliament libelling people in the House of Commons, that is, under conditions where the libelled have no possibility of protecting themselves. It may be remembered that some three or four years ago Mr. Belloc, then in the House of Commons, indulged in a scurrilous libel of the editor of the Spectator. As, however, he did not repeat the libel outside the House, we had no redress.
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