Mr. Lloyd George's Return
Mr. Lloyd George's speech to the Junior Liberal Club on Wednesday fully bore out the expectation that his return to Parliamentary activity would impart a certain liveliness to the political,atmosphere. There was not a great deal in the speech itself apart from a new declaration of faith in Free Trade, a flood of rather easy irony at the expense of the Liberal Ministers who felt it right to take office in the National Government, and a very superficial estimate of the crisis of last September. Mr. Lloyd George !ilia an unrivalled facility for putting the past behind • him, and his strictures on the party bargains of last year's General Election fall strangely from the lips of the chief organiser of the coupon election of 1918. Hut the return of so uncompromising a critic of the Government to the House of Commons is definitely to he welcomed. The weakness of the Opposition and the absence of a possible alternative government is a national misfortune. It is that, rather than any narrow party considerations, which make the continued presence of the Liberal Ministers in the Cabinet a rather more open ques- tion than it would otherwise be.
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