We need hardly say that the condition of wearing out
the sub- marines remains, as always, the severest economy and self-restraint at home. We were particularly glad to read Mr. Lloyd George's words about " steadiness." That is indeed the essential moral need of the moment, not only for the people but for the Govern- ment. We take Mr. Lloyd George to mean—for he never fails in imagination, and could not well apply to others a warning he withheld from himself—that the Government have been submitting themselves to some searching self-examination. They have probably told themselves that a succession of schemes only partly thought out undermines their authority, and that two or three genuine achievements are better than twenty misfires. To act as though the assertion " Let there he " this, that, and the other thing were in itself an act of creation is to try public confidence pretty severely. But we hope and believe that that phase of the Government's career is happily ended.
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