LLOYD GEORGE AND CHURCHILL
SIR,—" Janus " clearly places Earl Lloyd George below the level of Mr Churchill. May I submit considerations leading to an opposite view? Our present Prime Minister came into the world with the ball at his feet. Aristocratic up-bringing, a Harrow education, a commission in the cavalry and perhaps, above all, a knowledge of the right people made it easy for him to put to use his immense abilities. Lloyd George, on the other hand, fought his hard environment and overcame it. Secondly, whichever of these great men may be thought to have been the more distinguished war leader, who can put Churchill's achieve- ments in home politics, considerable though they have been, on a par with the magnificent work done by the great Welshman in raising the standard of life of the working classes in pensions, insurances and amenities of all kinds? " Janus " says truly that the struggle for these things brought about a divided people. But will he deny that to-day the whole Nation accepts that in all these laws, so hardly fought for and against, as well as in the fight for the Parliament Act, Lloyd George was right and his opponents were wrong?—Yours faithfully,
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