28 JULY 1917, Page 3

However, there are other influences, we are glad to say,

which are helping Mr. Lloyd George to keep a fair measure of stability, and not least of there is the discredit his opponents have fallen into through their very stupid and unimaginative opposition to the Corn Production Bill. Again, Ur. Lloyd George's answer to the new German Chancellor was exactly in the right key, and has been appreciated all over the Empire. We hope, too, that some of the traps for Mr. Churchill's restlessness may be removed from the Ministry of Munitions. That Ministry has become the home of various organizations for industrial improvement after the war. These belong properly to the new Ministry of Reconstruction, and should be placed as soon as possible where they properly belong.