The Prime Minister, speaking at the Printers' Pension Corporation dinner
in London on Friday week, paid a high tribute to the trained valour of the American troops who had been in action on the Western Front. The Americans, he said, were coming in steadily, and it was most encouraging in these anxious days to know that they would uphold the fighting traditions of their country. We were paying a big price for victory, but it was nothing to what the trice of defeat would be. As for General Ludendorff's "hammer-blows," they might creek and crumble poor material, but they would harden d consolidate goodenetal. "There is good ore in British hearts. It has stood the test of ceatteties ; it will stand this." France would stand it too. Unity and resolution were the two qUalities that we needed. Mr. Lloyd George, when he pleases, is tmrivalled in his power of inspiring fresh courage, and in this vigorous speech he was at his beet.
