The Daily Chronicle has this week given a very amusing
example of the old story : "No case : abuse plaintiff's attorney." On Saturday it republished, with appropriate cross headlines, such as "pompous person," a portion of the speech of personal abuse which Mr. Lloyd George poured forth upon the head of the editor of the Spectator some two and a half years ago :—
" The Spectator is edited at present by an exceedingly pre- tentious, pompous, and futile person —(laughter)—and I have just one or two words to say about the article, or rather about the couple of articles, which he is good enough to devote to me. He is the sort of person who, _if you do not accept as gospel the ill-informed platitudes which he preaches, instantly makes personal, offensive, and stupid attacks upon you."
And now comes our only complaint. The Daily Chronicle omits from its quotation the words in which Mr. Lloyd George, after having accused us of want of courage in not preach- ing sermons to the rich, added : "That is not the way to sell the Spectator"—words which mean, of course, that the editor only wrote of Mr. Lloyd George and his schemes as be did because be thought thereby he would get more sixpences from the public.
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