The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Mr.
Lloyd George's attempt on Monday to substantiate his grave charge that the Government had refused to co-operate with Germany in a proposal for the abolition of sub- marines was singularly unimpressive. All that lie could produce as evidence were a couple of guarded statements on the subject in the Liverpool Post and the Scotsman, . which to the practised eye of a journalist appeared to have been written by the same hand. It would have been more effective perhaps ie the 'First Lord had risen to reply the moment that Mr. Lloyd George had sat down instead of allowing as he did a back-bencher to follow and the debate in consequence to " go dead." But it certainly revived when he did make his answer. The First Lord's manner of the rather charming schoolboy was particularly effective for the occasion. Having stated the facts of the case as vouched for by both dele- gations he added, " if the Rt. Honble. gentleman will not believe me and will not believe the Germans, but some- how relies on some supernatural source of information', then I have nothing more to say."
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