POLITICAL POLICY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 2

POLITICAL POLICY.

It is a strange commentary upon our humanity and civilisation that the two highest and noblest themes in life, religion and . politics (the art of government), cause the most bittor of feuds. The one is being demonstrated daily still in Ireland and the other has reared its head again in England in connection with the return to-day of Lloyd George to London after the most strenuous month of his very strenuous career in trying to bring the nations together for the reconstruction of Europe. What a heap of trouble and expense Britain would save herself and her statesmen if she and they could be as callous to the needs of neighbours as is America. But even i' his mvn country, where his selfsacrificing efforts are best known, there is a strong cabal against Lloyd George, the modern Atlas, whose political enemies are the more bitter because of his 'altruism. The latest attack is upon the foreign policy of the British Cabinet. This is passing strange, becauso from its vory composition as a Coalition Cabinet it is in the position to give the nation all the best that the Homeland possesses in the way of genius for domestic and foreign guidance. Tlio Conservatives have always been better diplomats than the Liberals in dealing with foreign affairs, and the Liberals have had an equal genius for domestic legislation. With such a triumvir as Lloyd George, Austin Chamberlain, and Balfour, not to count Robert Horne, Lord Lee, and Winston Churchill, how can the British policy be so much at fault as Herbert Asquith and the Die-Hards would have the world believe?