Mr. Lloyd George's New Campaign Mr. Lloyd George will have
fired the first shot in his NeW Deal campaign before these lines appear. Comment on his actual proposals must therefore be deferred. Meanwhile the announcement of the first adhesion to his banner---Lord Snowden's—is significant, though it means primarily . the convergence of two brilliant individualists both unattached to parties: Whether, starting with nothing behind them, they can build up an organization to push a new peogramme must be considered doubtful, and it is clear that' Mr. Lloyd George retains so far an open mind on that point. His difficulty will be his own past. If when he was Prime Minister he had got his " homes fit for heroes to live in " built, the housing problem would not be what it is today. The task of castigating the National Government for its deficiencies is attractively simple, and it is all to the good that a politician of Mr. Lloyd George's vigour and acumen should carry it out, but with a General Election in the autumn becoming increasingly probable the essential question is where, if anywhere, an alternative to the National Government is to be found. Mr. Lloyd George's answer to that will be awaited with 'peculiar interest. His crusade looks like cutting clean across parties.
