NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN to-day's issue we have finished our outline history of Mr. Lloyd George's Administration and its origins. The task has been neither agreeable nor popular. It would have been much easier and pleasanter for us to have left Mr. Lloyd George's Adminis- tration alone, and to have vaguely hoped and prayed that somehow or other he would discover something of a right line even in obli- quity. Feeling, however, as we did in regard to him and his words rnd deeds, we had no choice but to warn our fellow-countrymen, and to do our best to make them listen to our warnings. Apparently r-either they nor their representatives are for the moment in the mood to listen. That does not alter our view, but it is clear that a policy of " nagging " will not help the nation, or even help to obtain that National Ministry which we desire—a Ministry which will prosecute the war with the utmost vigour, and maintain a determined attitude towards the problems of peace, be the sacrifices to be demanded from the country never so groat.
