At Bedford Mr. Lloyd George had said—not of Rosyth: "Housing
is atrocious, inadequate, insufficient, insanitary, rotten." If Mr. Lloyd George had been speaking of the Government housing at Rosyth, no one could have quarrelled with his lurid adjectives. Mr. Macnamara's defence on behalf of the Government was barren and perfunctory. The sub- stance of the charges, unfortunately, could not be disputed We hope the country will take note of the insincerity of • Government who not only allow such conditions to exist, but create them, while they prevent private enterprise from making good their defects, and allow their Chancellor of the Exchequer to go about the country vilifying private persona who at least are doing their duty according to their lights. Lord Robert Cecil did a public service in calling attention to this gross case of administrative ineptitude.
