[To 7TE EDITOR inc THE"SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Few of your readers will
disagree with your stringent, but richly deserved, criticism of Mr. Lloyd George's fatal indiscretion in Paris last week. If such a speech had been necessary, then clearly it ought to have been delivered in this country and not in a foreign capital. But his ill-advised decision to give utterance at all to such uncalled-for and unjustifiable strictures (veiled though they may be) against our military experts is only another instance— of which we have experienced many of late years—of the impetuosity of his nature. We cannot, however, afford in these perilous and anxious times to risk leaving the control of affairs in the hands of one who so manifestly acts upon the impulse of the moment, and your demand for his instant dismissal is as just as it is imperative. I venture, however, to differ entirely with you in the alternatives suggested from whom his soccessor might be selected. Of these two are lawyers, a qualification which alone damns their fitness for the position, for the country has experi- mented now for over nine years in having is lawyer as its Prime Minister, and with most disastrous and far-reaching results—I
am, Sir, Sc., E. JAMS. 2 Cleveland Road, Barnes, S. IV.
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