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The answer, of course, is .plain, though it cannot be

very easily, or, at any rate, very pleasantly, given to Mr. Lloyd George by his old colleagues. Mr. Lloyd George is quite right in saying that there is to be no change in abstract policy. On the other hand, a complete change is to be made in the method and in the spirit in which the Government will be carried on. The change in the man at the wheel is, indeed, a change of this kind. Mr. Lloyd George is surely aware that an inefficient or dangerous pilot may be got rid of without altering the course of the ship. That is the exact situation.