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There could be no more dramatic proof of the collapse

of Mr. Lloyd George's political army than the defeat of Mr. Churchill. He has always been the most restless element among Mr. Lloyd George's followers. He and the late Prime Minister constantly acted and reacted upon one another. During the war Mr. Churchill was continually hatching dangerous plans, many of them, we are sure, prompted and coloured by his own well- known personal courage ; and it is known now that the flaming and most innopportune manifesto which the late Government published on the Near Eastern crisis was written by him. What better illustration could we have of the nation's desire for caution and rest than the sensational refusal of Dundee to have anything more to.do with Mr. Churchill ?

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