27 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 5

Mr. Lloyd George declared that occupying owi!-"Iship had not been

a Liberal policy since 1905, but as Su John Green pointed out in a letter to the Times of last Saturday, as recently as 1923 the declared Liberal policy was for giving the cultivator the opportunities of ownership. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George had to accept a considerable modification of his plans for confining farming to " cultivating tenure." Thus a formal agreement has been reached by the Liberal Party as to what its land policy will be at that indefinitely distant date when the party will be strong enough to make its opinions felt. The price paid is in keeping with the extortionate bills which Mr. Lloyd George invariably presents to his political clients.