MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S "LEVITY."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—The Spectator seems, coincidentally, to have fallen into line with certain other journals in the resolve that Mr. Lloyd George must " go." It is, I am sure, so far as the Spectator is concerned, a perfectly honourable and honest conclusion. But it leaves one reader, at any rate, confused and 'offended. The old.charge of " levity" is revived. As one who was brought up in the belief that no crisis is ever permitted but that Provi- dence raises up a man to meet it, I have looked upon Mr. Lloyd George as God's gift at a period of inexpressible peril. To err is human, and Mr. Lloyd George is very human. That charac- teristic is one secret of his world-wide predominance. But that levity will stand on the debit side of his account when the final audit falls due I am not convinced. Again, if it were not the Spectator, with its splendid courage and fine independence, that said it, I would suspect that prejudice or inexperience or ignorance had darkly transmuted a singular, and saving, gaiety
of spirit into apparent levity. That interpretation being impossible I am left wondering. Possibly, after all, when certain clouds have rolled by, Mr. Lloyd George will be found amongst the just, whose path, it is said, shines more and more
unto the perfect day.—I am, Sir, &c., J. EDWARD HARLOW. Wesley Manse, Canterbury.
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