That being so, what Mr. Masaingham is really asking for
it that Mr. Lloyd George, because he is a Liberal and a party man, should have vetoed a proposition obviously made on its merits, and should have told the War Office staff that they had no'businesS to suggest the eviction of a club of which he and other members of the Cabinet were members, and that, no matter at what incon- venience to the public service, the Liberal headquarters must be regarded as sacred. That, in plain terms, is what Mr. Massingham ex- pected Mr. Lloyd George to say and do, and hence his venom when Mr. Lloyd George did nothing of the kind. We have no axe to grind in defending Mr. Lloyd George, but we are bound to say that these and other attacks by so-called Liberals on him because he has had the courage not to think of his position in the Liberal Party or his future therein, but only of the national interests, are positively nauseating.
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