And there would be a worse danger than that. If
popular feeling against Great Britain set in, it would spread upwards, not perhaps out of conviction but through sheer force of circumstances. If American rumour said that Mr. Lloyd George had spoilt the Conference, American politicians tin and down the land would be under a sore temptation to shelter themselves by becoming, or pretending to 'become, anti-British. These things are a real danger. No great effort' of imagination is required to foresee them. We can only hope that the Govern- ment are looking a little way ahead. By far the best thing that could happen would be a brief visit by Mr. Lloyd George to Washington. He could• be •trusted better than any man to improve the occasion) and in perfectly appropriate language to dispel the mists and make all. Americans understand what, after all, is only the bare truth—that the heart of this country is set upon a complete understanding with America.
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