In a speech on the war at the Queen's Hall
last Saturday Mr. Lloyd George dealt out indignation, contempt, and pathos with extraordinary effect, and he ended with a visiorary passage of great beauty about a newer patriotism such as could come only from a man who is by birth an orator. His treatment of the German argument about a "scrap of paper" was perfect for the occasion, and is likely to be long remembered: " Have you any £5 notes about you, or any of those neat little Treasury £1 notes P If you have, burn them. They are only serape of paper! What are they made of P Rags. What are they worth P The whole credit of the British Empire." " Treaties," he said, applying the illustration, "are the currency of inter- national statesmanship." If German commerce were conducted on the same principles as German statecraft, no trader would ever look at the signature of a German merchant again. If the old British spirit were still alive in British hearts, the bully would be torn from his seat.
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