We comment elsewhere on Mr. Lloyd George's speech. Here we
need only record that it was most favourably received by all parties at home, including even the extreme Pacificists like Mr. Snowden and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and by the Dominions. M. Clemen- ceau telegraphed his appreciation of the speech as a summary of " the actual truths that we must never grow weary of affirming against German falsehoods." M. Albert Thomas, the French Socialist leader, who was present at the meeting, expressed his entire approval of the Prime Minister's programme. The French and Italian Press has expressed its satisfaction. President Wilson in his address to Congress on Tuesday referred in friendly terms to the speech. Among the opponents of Germany, the Russian Anar- chists alone have denounced Mr. Lloyd George's statement, which they profess to regard as an offer of peace at the expense of Russia. The German and Austrian Press is uniformly hostile to the Prime Minister.
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