Just about the time when the Ministry came into being,
the reserves of artillery ammunition at the front began mounting by leaps and bounds. "The new Department had nothing to do with the matter beyond ladling out goods for which the War Office had made full provision long before. . . . The results of those labours only made themselves really felt at a later date" ; and for them Mr. Lloyd George received " well- deserved-credit." When the stunt began,
Mr. Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer ; he passed his financial responsibilities on to his Cabinet colleague, Mr. McKenna—David and Jonathan, their love for one another was wonderful, passing the love- of women—and then David jostled Jonathan off the course into the ditch. Control was snatched out of the hands of the Treasury; and one does not feel sure that.the Treasury hasgot it bask yet or that it ever will. . . ". It will be -found that the whole situation in connection with these matters was in reality totally different from- what the man in the street has been taught to helieve."
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