TWO POLITICAL PROPHECIES.
[To run EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—It is sometimes amusing to prophesy in regard to political events. Will you allow me to indulge my whim? If by tide time next year my prophecies have not come true I shall he delighted to acknowledge my error. I prophesy that before many months are past we shall see " a compromise break out" between Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe. Like Tweedlednm and Tweedledee, their battle will be over, and we shall find them with their arms round each other's neeke. Already there are signs of the battle dying away. (Note Mr. Kennedy Jones's speech and the more chastened comments of the Times and Daily Mail.) My next prophecy is that Mr. Lloyd George will yield to I lift demand for a public investigation into the highly confidential matter treated of by Lord French in his Memoirs, and that the result of such an investigation will be to create still further disconsideration amongst those of Mr. Lloyd George's Liberal colleagues who for the moment appear to be reviving. Tim very complimentary language used by Lord French in regarl to Mr. Lloyd George's conduct during the early part of the war. and especially in regard to shells and heavy ordnance, an what appears to be the implied suggestion that his activity contrasted very favourably with the action of other members of the Ministry, is likely to do a good deal of damage. It will be characteristic of Mr. Lloyd George to make this practical and personal use of Lord French's indiscretions and to turn them to his own advantage. Incidentally I suppose that I am right in assuming that Lord French's Memoirs were submitted to the usual censorship and were passed for publication. If so, it is interesting that the swan song of the Censorship should be no flagrant an indiscretion.—I am, Si,', &c..
DANIEL JUNIOR.
[We shall watch with interest to see whether the propheeins of "Daniel hunter" come home to roost.—En. Spectator.]
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