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The country became thoroughly alarmed at the way in which

Mr. Lloyd George, even though he talked economy, was piling charge upon charge upon the taxpayer. The money thrown away upon Mesopotamia and Palestine since the Armistice is so terrifying an amount that the ordinary man feels about it as Louis XIV. is said in the end to have felt about his extravagance at Versailles— he burnt all the accounts because he dared not look at them. Mr. Lloyd George's home economies have been almost as perilous and expensive as those abroad.

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