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Mr. Lloyd George "endorsed every word that bad fallen from

Sir Edward Grey." Turning to the Insurance Bill, he asked, why, if women were unfit to vote, should they be regarded as fit to be Insurance Commissioners ? He pleaded for unity, maintained that they had a mandate, and dismissed the Referendum on the ground that a test which the Liberal Party had rejected for other questions would be doubly unfair for woman suffrage.