* * * * Over and . over again during the
War Mr. Lloyd George had to extricate himself from political entanglements which seemed to have him bound hard and fast and from which there Was no visible way of escape. .Nevertheless, by personal.fo-tce and .by dialectical cleverness he repeat- - edly perforMecl_ the Almost incredible feat. That is the sort of feat Which we hope the Prime Minister will try to perform. Certainly if the present writer were a coal- , oWner or dpfiner he would rather listen to Mr. Baldwin .than to Mr. ,Lloyd George, for all Mr. Baldwin's arts are those of simplicity and sincerity. From the point , 'of _view of the industrial outlook much—perhaps every- thing—depends upon getting a settlement that is really a ,settlement in the coal fields: We need to bring to an end once and for all the long era of senseless and expensive fighting. We need to replace it with an era of con- structive co-operation and of. much wiser and better methods of arbitration than we have ever had.
