We assume that Mr. Churchill will be returned for Dundee,
and we can only hope that he will be kept very strictly to his work at the Ministry of Munitions, and will receive no sort of encourage- ment to wander into the paths of high strategy through being admitted too often to consultation with the War Cabinet. If the Prime Minister acts as a really good friend to him, he will tell him that his one chance of reconstructing his political fortunes is to proceed cautiously. A single further act of headstrong egotism would be final ruin. We hope that Mr. Lloyd George• may not be disillusioned in his audacious choice of Mr. Churchill ; but we cannot help recognizing that by his appointment of both Mr. Churchill and Mr. Montagu he has alienated much more support than be has gained, and that at a time when the Government are in very serious need of support.
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