Last Saturday Mr. Lloyd George spoke at Birkenhead on the
war. Ile declared that the figures which he gave in the House last month with regard to our loans from submarine attack were perfectly accurate- The German efforts to disprove them merely showed that the truth had created a bad impression in Germany. Mr. Lloyd George renewed his assurance that the enemy submarines would never minim our defeat. He declared that his experiment of employing business men in Ministerial office had been an un- qualified success ; we should not have put it quite so strongly. Mr. Lloyd George spoke frankly of Russia's troubles. " If Germany is to-day invading with her guns, it is because she knows that her other methods have failed." The Russian lenders, he said, knew that they must defeat the enemy to save the new democracy. The title-deeds of the French Revolution were the victories of its armies over the invader, not the mere declaration of liberty in the streets of Paris. " It is all very well to worship at the Shrine of Liberty, but you cannot defend it with garlands." Still, Russia was loyal to the Allies, and everywhere else the war was going well.
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